Public goods & scaling CDR - Symons
What are the social and political barriers to scaling CDR? Symons and @geoengineering1 discuss first-movers and a public goods framing. They then consider obstructions to progress: carbon accounting, ...
4 Nov 202136min
SRM and Iceland - Moore
Warmed by ocean currents and geothermal heat, Icelandic ice caps are in an unusual situation. How would they be affected by SRM? John Moore from Beijing Normal University is in discussion with @geoeng...
4 Nov 202145min
Game theory, coalitions & SRM - Heyen
The actual Reviewer 2 Jesse Reynolds becomes our Reviewer 2 and interviews Daniel Heyen on his coalition formation paper. "Solar geoengineering governance: a dynamic framework of farsighted coalition ...
1 Nov 202147min
DICE, Moral Hazard and SRM - Belaia
Mariia Belaia is an economist, who used the Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy (DICE) model to argue that over half of climate change may optimally be addressed using SRM. @geoengineering1 is so horri...
29 Okt 202143min
CCT - Mitchell
David Mitchell explains cirrus cloud thinning in detail, and why climate models without mountains get it badly wrong. There is no paper reference here, but there are some hard lessons about the peer r...
29 Okt 202157min
Ocean CDR's natural analogues - Bach
Can natural ocean processes help us understand how ocean CDR might work? Discussion of "Seeking natural analogs to fast-forward the assessment of marine CO2 removal " with Lennart Bach and @geoenginee...
18 Okt 20211h 8min
DAC's carbon footprint
Does the carbon footprint of Direct Air Capture negate its environmental benefits? Balint Simon discusses his paper, "Material flows and Embodied Energy of Direct Air Capture". This episode was presen...
11 Okt 202136min
River diversion to deliberately melt the Arctic??? Julian Hunt
Julian Hunt relives the highest of high modernism with his cold war style project to divert northern rivers and deliberately melt the Arctic. This will apparently help global warming - or so he says. ...
27 Sep 20211h
