Who's interested in geoengineering?
Via Joe Romm, a fascinating snippet: a scientific conference on geoengineering is to be held in California, with the goals of: Identify potential risks associated with climate intervention experiments Propose a system to assess experiment design for potential categorical risks [...]
More methane
Recently my notice has been captured by a couple of interesting reports about methane. First, it seems that there is twice as much carbon in the form of methane in permafrost than we previously thought. In fact about 1.5 trillion [...]
Millennia of drought
More cheery news from climate scientists! A new study published in Proceedings of the (US) National Academy of Sciences conducts a little thought experiment. What happens if anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gas emissions stop tomorrow? You’d hope that it might [...]
Geoengineering from the Royal Society
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences is not a journal I’d imagine too many of you read on a regular basis – I certainly don’t. But their recent special issue is on a topic [...]
Carbon counting conundrums, difficult choices
If a recent article from the BBC is anything to go by, countries that think they are reducing their carbon emissions may in fact be increasing them. It seems that under UN rules no-one owns emissions from aviation and shipping. [...]




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