Reviewer 2 does geoengineering

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. Paper: Cooling down the world oceans and the earth by enhancing the North Atlantic Ocean current. SN Applied Sciences DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-1755-y [pure.iiasa.ac.at/16202]

Nan Wang explains why bigger CCS projects are more likely to fail. "What went wrong? Learning from three decades of carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) pilot and demonstration projects"

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112546

News from @gfuterman and @geoengineering1 covering IPCC, Holly Jean Buck & tribalism, Australian MCB trials, Andy Parker on slippery slope, and much else

Global Thermostat founder Peter Eisenberger steamrollers Andrew (@geoengineering1) in this challenging interview about his company's controversial culture, and its relationship with Exxon.

Comrade Rinberg and Comrade Bergman discuss their revolutionary alkalinity concentration swing CDR. This will be deployed after they've organised an uprising to replace the borgeois capitalist hegemony. @geoengineering1 wishes they'd just get on with making some cash out of their idea, so we can all get it sooner.

How do ethics considerations affect the choices made by researchers as they propose and optimise geoengineering models? Paper link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039368121000182

Values in early-stage climate engineering: The ethical implications of “doing the research”

Jude Galbraith

What happens underground, when we try to store billions of tonnes of CO2? Andrew finds out (while noisily defrosting his freezer). Paper: Alkalinity Generation Constraints on Basalt Carbonation for Carbon Dioxide Removal at the Gigaton-per-Year Scale: Benjamin M. Tutolo, Adedapo Awolayo, and Calista Brown. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021,

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02733

This episode has it all: Slippery slopes; Santa; Nazis; luxury beliefs; Henry Ford; Putin; cattle raids; and apostrophes. Nearly 2h of tangents and squabbles make this episode our longest and maybe the most on-brand ever. Paper reference: Individual difference in slippery slope beliefs predict outgroup negativity - Levi Adelman, et al.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104141

Andrew gets thoroughly confused, as Thomas Aubry discusses how volcanoes might change in a warmer world. Three papers discussed:

https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/16/305/2016/

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/20/eabe3416

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18352-5

Dr. Thomas J. Aubry

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow - Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Research Fellow - Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

https://sites.google.com/view/thomasjaubry/

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https://twitter.com/ThomasJAubry

Ron Baiman and Andrew do not play nicely together - they argue, bicker and squabble about geoengineering and a Green New Deal. Paper reference: "In Support of a Renewable Energy and Materials Economy: A Global Green New Deal That Includes Arctic Sea Ice Triage and Carbon Cycle Restoration" Review of Radical Political Economics DOI: 10.1177/04866134211032396