Tag: drawdown

An Ignorant Sketch of Offsetting

I am about to do some work on this, but do not know at the moment other than through anecdotes. So I may change my mind on this, and appreciate comments or refutations. The theory of offsets, in general, is obvious. If you...

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CO2 and Drawdown technology

There is lots of new drawdown technology, which claims to be able to make plastic and fuel out of CO2 extracted from either the air, from coal power, from cow farts and so on. I’m not being sarcastic about the cow farts,...

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Carbon Extraction

There are many plans to extract CO2 directly from the air. Many people assure us it is necessary if we are to keep climate turmoil moderately stable, and avoid tipping points. However, as there is not that much CO2 in the air,...

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Some remarks on Geo-Engineering

Geoengineering (GE) involves the attempt to solve the problems of climate change by altering the Earth’s ecology. It largely comes in two forms: Solar Radiation Management (SRM) in which we try and lower the amount of the...

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