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Jul 14

Off The Shelf DAC – $100 a Ton Using WW II Technology

By bmelton climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Healthy Climate, Negative emissions, Solutions

Original Image: Keith et al., 2018. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2018.05.006 The folks at Carbon Engineering in Squamish, British Columbia have been working on their process since 2009. Normally, this type of proprietary process…

Jun 26

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Alaskan Permafrost Now Emitting more Greenhouse Gases Than it is Storing

By bmelton Abrupt changes, Alaska, Arctic, CO2, Methane, Permafrost, permafrost melt, tundra

This image is of a thermokarast melt pool, or permafrost melt in Central Alaska. To get there, follow the Denali Highway (all weather gravel) east from Cantwell about 60 miles….

Mar 25

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Sing Delay, Delay, Delay: 0.5 C Limit to Dangerous Climate Change

By bmelton 0.5 C, 1.5 C, 2 C, abrupt change, Abrupt changes, abrupt climate change, Arctic, Arctic sea ice collapse, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, CO2, dangerous climate change, delay, Emissions, Greenland, Gulf Stream, Gulf Stream Collapse, ice sheet, Impacts, Legacy Policy, Methane, modeling, Policy, sea ice, Strategy, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse

Point 660, Greenland Ice Sheet, 20 miles east of Kangerlussuaq on the west coast. Physics is important. An enormous amount of heat is required to melt ice. This is why…

Aug 17

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Falling Emissions: With Offshored Goods and Fugitive Emissions — Not So Much

By bmelton Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, Climate Reform, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, Policy, politics, Scenarios, sequestration, Solutions, Strategy, What we can do

Observations on Declining U.S. Emissions: It’s a widely held belief that the U.S. has been reducing emissions since the peak 2005-2007 before the recession. This is just barely valid today,…

Aug 11

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Large Negative Emissions of 80 Gt Annually Allow Dangerous Warming

By bmelton Abrupt changes, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, fossil fuels, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, Policy, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, Strategy, Temperature

The greatest climate dude of all time has done it again. James Hansen, 32 year director of the U.S. national climate modeling agency, the NASA Goddard institute for Space Studies,…

Jun 23

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Paris Warms, Not Cools, for Thousands of Years

By bmelton Climate Policy, CO2, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Legacy Policy, Myths, Negative emissions, Policy, Scenarios, Strategy, Temperature

It’s a widely held misconception that implementation of Paris Climate commitments would tame the climate beast. This has no more been the case in the past than it is today….

Mar 08

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Warm Winter, Early Spring: Is Climate Change a Mixed Bag or are we Kidding Ourselves?

By bmelton Abrupt changes, adaptation, Antarctica, Beaches coastal, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, CO2, Deniers and Delayers, Drought, economics, El Nino, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, forest health, Forest Mortality, Glaciers, Greenland, Gulf Stream, ice sheet, ice sheets, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, IPCC, modeling, Negative emissions, Oceans, pine beetle, Policy, politics, Psycho, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Shifting Ecology, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Winter Weather

President Trump it seems, has given us permission to backslide with our thinking about climate change. Until we have rule or law that tells us we must do something about…

Sep 15

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An Easier Solution to Climate Change

By bmelton Abrupt changes, adaptation, aerosols, alternatives, Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, Climate Reform, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, economics, Extreme Weather, in-depth and Popular Press, Policy, Sea Level Rise, sequestration, Shifting Ecology, short-term, Strategy, Temperature, What we can do

The driver of our climate system has changed in the last two decades from one that is controlled by annual emissions, to one that is controlled by already emitted CO2….

May 22

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NOAA — Ice Sheet Collapse in Our Time: Zero Warming Climate Solution

By bmelton Abrupt changes, adaptation, Antarctica, Arctic, Climate Policy, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Greenland, ice sheets, in-depth and Popular Press, modeling, Negative emissions, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

We have delayed too long and now must urgently reduce the load of warming gases already emitted to our sky. We have been warned this would happen for decades, we…

Apr 28

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Saved They Say: Emissions Have Flattened — Climate Mirage

By bmelton aerosols, Antarctica, Climate Policy, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions, ice sheets, Negative emissions, Sea Level Rise, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

And they also say that Elvis is not dead. But alas… the answer is no, we are not saved. Things are actually getting worse because of the so-called “flattening emissions.”…

Nov 27

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Legacy Climate Policy: The Scale of the Current Science and Need for DAC

By bmelton Climate Policy, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, communications, Emissions, in-depth and Popular Press, Media, Myths, Negative emissions, Policy, Solutions, Uncategorized

In the run up to the Paris climate talks, current policy is far behind. Virtually unknown is science stating that the solutions to treating climate pollution are simple, cheap and…

Aug 21

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The Clean Power Plan Is Barely Better Than Kyoto; IPCC Says: We Must Remove CO2 From the Atmosphere

By bmelton adaptation, aerosols, Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, global cooling pollutants, in-depth and Popular Press, Policy, sequestration, summary, Truthout.org

First published on Truthout, August 16, 2015. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan is 12 percent more stringent than the Kyoto Protocol, yet since 1978, the US has emitted as much…

Aug 21

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The Clean Power Plan Is Barely Better Than Kyoto; IPCC Says: We Must Remove CO2 From the Atmosphere

First published on Truthout, August 16, 2015. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan is 12 percent more stringent than the Kyoto Protocol, yet since 1978, the US has emitted as much…

Apr 30

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IPCC: More Than All of Observed Warming Has Been Caused by Humanity's Emissions

By bmelton aerosols, CO2, Emissions, global cooling pollutants, in-depth and Popular Press, Temperature

First published on Truthout.org April 24, 2015. “The best estimate of the human-induced contribution to warming is similar to the observed warming [from 1951 through 2010].” IPCC 2013, Summary for Policy…

Apr 30

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IPCC: More Than All of Observed Warming Has Been Caused by Humanity's Emissions

By bmelton aerosols, CO2, Emissions, global cooling pollutants, in-depth and Popular Press, Temperature

CO2

Off The Shelf DAC – $100 a Ton Using WW II Technology

Alaskan Permafrost Now Emitting more Greenhouse Gases Than it is Storing

Sing Delay, Delay, Delay: 0.5 C Limit to Dangerous Climate Change

Falling Emissions: With Offshored Goods and Fugitive Emissions — Not So Much

Large Negative Emissions of 80 Gt Annually Allow Dangerous Warming

Paris Warms, Not Cools, for Thousands of Years

Warm Winter, Early Spring: Is Climate Change a Mixed Bag or are we Kidding Ourselves?

An Easier Solution to Climate Change

NOAA — Ice Sheet Collapse in Our Time: Zero Warming Climate Solution

Saved They Say: Emissions Have Flattened — Climate Mirage

Legacy Climate Policy: The Scale of the Current Science and Need for DAC

The Clean Power Plan Is Barely Better Than Kyoto; IPCC Says: We Must Remove CO2 From the Atmosphere

The Clean Power Plan Is Barely Better Than Kyoto; IPCC Says: We Must Remove CO2 From the Atmosphere

IPCC: More Than All of Observed Warming Has Been Caused by Humanity's Emissions

IPCC: More Than All of Observed Warming Has Been Caused by Humanity's Emissions

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