Climate 201: NETS VIII: Enhanced Weathering
How could grinding up rocks and sprinkling the dust over vast areas help to combat climate change? In this episode, we deal with "enhanced weathering" as a potential source of negative emissions.
16 Nov 202129min
Climate201 NETS VI: Planting Trees and Afforestation
Mention carbon capture, and the refrain you'll often hear is "why invent a machine that captures CO2? We already have one - it's called a tree." But is large-scale afforestation as a negative emission...
1 Nov 202151min
Climate 201: NETS V: Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage
N/B: Owing to a ridiculously hectic schedule until the end of the year, episodes will continue to be released on a fortnightly basis until further notice - thanks for understanding. We hear an awful...
18 Okt 202155min
Climate 201: Negative Emissions IV: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
In this episode, we get into some of the specific technologies that might be called upon to deliver negative emissions at scale. Specifically, we're looking at the advantages, disadvantages, and conce...
4 Okt 20211h 4min
Climate 201, Negative Emissions III: Technological Promises, or Prevarications
In this episode, we discuss whether the promises that some new technology - like negative emissions - will come along and "solve climate change" for us are genuine, or if they have instead shaped clim...
21 Sep 20211h 5min
Climate 201: Negative Emissions (II): We'll Always Have Paris?
Increasing levels of negative emissions are envisioned by models in climate-change scenarios that are compatible with the Paris Agreements. In this episode, we talk about some of the geopolitical impl...
13 Sep 202144min
Climate 201: Negative Emissions I: The Last Thing We Should Be Talking About?
Negative emissions technologies (NETs), also called carbon dioxide removal (CDR), are seen by many as an increasingly essential part of climate change mitigation. Many of the scenarios that the IPCC s...
6 Sep 202143min
Book Club: Jason Hickel's The Divide, Part I: The Origins of Global Inequality
The book club returns, with a two-part review and overview of anthropologist Jason Hickel's book "The Divide", about global inequality, its historical origins, and possible solutions in the future.
24 Aug 202159min
