Reviewer 2 does geoengineering

Eliot Peper is the author of Veil, one of only a handful of novels written about SRM. He talks to Andrew on the show about his interest in the subject, and the creative and business process of being a novelist. This episode is a super interesting foray into a fiction genre of which both of us at reviewer 2 are big fans, (Clare is reading it at the moment). Eliot is a successful writer and has written a number of novels which you can find at his website below. 

https://www.eliotpeper.com

https://twitter.com/eliotpeper

Our guest this week is Mike Wolovick, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the College of Global Change and Earth Systems Science, Beijing Normal University. Mike and Andrew discuss how glaciers might be slowed down using a variety of engineering techniques. See the paper Andrew, Mike wrote

Get in touch with us on twitter @reviewer2geo or Andrew on @geoengineering1 or or me, Clare @clare_nomad_geo 

Papers for Mike Wolovick

Lockley et al., 2020 Glacier geoengineering to address sea-level rise: A geotechnical approach https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2020.11.008Moore et al. (2018):  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03036-4  (Nature comment, three methods)

Wolovick and Moore (2018):  https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/2955/2018/   (TC paper, artificial sills in more detail)

Hunt and Byers (2019):  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11027-018-9831-y   (crude engineering treatment of berms vs thin barriers)

Frieler et al. (2016):  https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/7/203/2016/  (pumping water up onto East Antarctica)

Feldmann et al. (2019):  https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw4132  (pumping water up onto West Antarctica)

Pippa Gawley is an experienced investor  (with a science and investing background) and here explains the how and why of companies that show promise in climate change tech might be chosen for investment at the gritty starting point. A fascinating insight especially for our academic listeners who should be interested in how interesting tech gets off the ground.  

https://www.zerocarbon.capital/pippa-gawley

Raymond Tan is probably the most prolific and experienced academic ever to have his work rejected by Reviewer 2. Here, he discusses analysis of the impact of large scale Enhanced Weathering on the wider economy and environment (while being rudely interrupted).

Article: On life-cycle sustainability optimization of enhanced weathering systems, The Journal of Cleaner Production 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652621000561

The fantastic @eaterofsun AKA Oliver Morton author of many books and articles including

-The Moon: A History for the Future

-The Planet remade: How Geoengineering could change the world

Oliver chats to Andrew about geoengineering, terra forming and the moon amongst other things. A fascinating podcast and thank you Oliver for coming on the show! 

Comments and suggestions as usual to @reviewer2geo or @geoengineering1 or @clare_nomad_geo

Welcome to another instalment from Zhen Dai, here to talk about her latest paper: 

"Experimental reaction rates constrain estimates of ozone response to calcium carbonate geoengineering" 

Zhen Dai, Debra K. Weisenstein, Frank N. Keutsch & David W. Keith 

Communications Earth & Environment volume 1, Article number: 63 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00058-7?s=03 

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The cost of stratospheric aerosol injection through 2100

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba7e7

Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d

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Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming Nature Geoscience volume 12, pages163–167(2019) https://t.co/L9riE6fgEE?amp=1

 @JesseLReynolds Is solar geoengineering ungovernable? A critical assessment of governance challenges identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

First published: 11 November 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.690

 David Keith tweet

Cool new paper from Tapio Schneider. If SRM interacts with convection in unexpected ways then agreement in GeoMIP models just encourages overconfidence

Solar geoengineering may not prevent strong warming from direct effects of CO2 on stratocumulus cloud cover. PNAS first published November 16, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003730117

 @CEMEX and Synhelion talked with @GlobalCement

Magazine about how they want to replace fossil fuels with #solar heat in cement plants. 

Read pages 26-28: https://globalcement.com/magazine/back-issues/dec-2020

https://solarpaces.org/cemex-and-synhelion-to-demo-zero-co2-cement/… 

 SRMGI/DECIMALS, which supports solar geo research in developing countries. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abbf13…

 JensFriis Lund tweet

I'm in good scholarly company here criticizing Shell's offsetting scheme “Worse than doing nothing”: Shell’s REDD offsets in Indonesia and Peru https://redd-monitor.org/2020/11/19/worse-than-doing-nothing-shells-redd-offsets-in-indonesia-and-peru/

 "Right now the entities best poised to do this are fossil fuel companies,” @hollyjeanbuck says, "Do we allow them to reconfigure themselves as carbon removal companies – or would that evade reparative and corrective justice?” https://vice.com/en/article/akdvy4/carbon-capture-storage-oil-companies-profit… via @vice

Oil Companies Want to Get Even Richer Sucking Their Own Emissions Out of the Air

Mark Carney oversees blueprint for scaling up carbon market as offset demand soars https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/11/10/mark-carney-oversees-blueprint-scaling-carbon-market-offset-demand-soars/

https://conserwater.com Using our AIs, we are launching the world's first international soil carbon market where corporations, governments and individuals can pay to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, and farmers can get paid to increase their soil carbon levels. Sign up today to fight climate change! 

INEA tweet (Innovation and networks executive agency EU)

Read all about the groundbreaking 

@CarbFix agreements against #climatechange with @Climeworks

& #ONpower to significantly scale-up carbon removal & storage in #Iceland. Article

 https://europa.eu/!CF74DQ Project https://europa.eu/!bR47nP

 D'Maris Coffman tweet/Andrew Lockley paper 

State commissioning of Solar Radiation Management geoengineering https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21550085.2020.1848176#.X7u4G-bp2qM.twitter… 

Published: 06 October 2020

Assessing Carbon Capture: Public Policy, Science, and Societal Need. A Review of the Literature on Industrial Carbon Removal June Sekera & Andreas Lichtenberger Biophysical Economics and Sustainability volume 5, Article number: 14 (2020) Cite this article

Henning Franke is at the Max-Planck Institute researching the quasi-biennial oscillation in a warming climate. His paper with additional authors Ulrike Neimeier and Dan Visioni  has been accepted for review by Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics. 

Differences in the QBO response to stratospheric aerosol modification depending on injection strategy and species

https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2020-1104/

Please see below links for articles mentioned this week. 

Comments and suggestions are always welcome: [email protected] @reviewer2geo @geoengineering1 and @clare_nomad_geo

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Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change Michaël Aklin and Matto Mildenberger https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/glep_a_00578 

The Smart Money Is Investing In Carbon Credits

https://www.xpansiv.com/2020/08/27/cbl-markets-launches-global-emissions-offset-a-tradeable-product-and-carbon-benchmark/

Drax expresses support for Northern Endurance Partnership

http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/17490/drax-expresses-support-for-northern-endurance-partnership/

Stop an arctic thaw with geoengineering? 

https://bangordailynews.com/2020/10/26/opinion/contributors/geoengineering-could-be-our-last-chance-to-stop-an-arctic-thaw/ 

BIG OIL MORPHS INTO BIG CARBON REMOVAL? 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/carbon-dioxide-removal-industry-could-rival-oil-and-gas-in-climate-fight?sref=twBqzIJU Study is here https://www.unpri.org/an-investor-guide-to-negative-emission-technologies-and-the-importance-of-land-use/6644.article Big money ? Vivid Economics report https://www.unpri.org/download?ac=11980 

PROBLEMS WITH LAND BASED OFFSETS 

https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2020/10/22/up-in-smoke-california-fires-once-again-highlight-dangers-of-forest-offsets/ 

If humans design the planet: A call for psychological scientists to engage with climate engineering. 

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-78671-001

Holly Buck/Jay Fuhrman Article on Adaptation and Carbon Capture 

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2590332220304772 

Richard King and Duncan Brack guest post on C2G CDR should add to, but not replace, conventional abatement

https://www.c2g2.net/land-based-carbon-dioxide-removal-as-urgent-and-as-difficult-a-policy-challenge-as-ever/?_cldee=Y2xhcmVAa2luZ3NzcXVhcmUuY28udWs%3d&recipientid=contact-1df4ecb78a0ceb11a813000d3a4f62e7-c30f04460e334f17b8a1076549383819&esid=37304a9b-1419-eb11-a813-000d3a4f62e7

SUPERWHITE PAINT CAN COOL BUILDINGS EVEN IN HOT SUN 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257749-superwhite-paint-can-cool-buildings-even-in-hot-sunlight/#ixzz6biKFSNAS

Crowther goes in again -Soils and CO2/Biodiversity http://bit.ly/2Np2R5Z