Re: [geo] Team launches initiative to develop viable market for waste carbon dioxide | ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact

2017-06-07 Thread Jonathan Marshall
There could be an argument that when your prime political and economic system is capitalist, then profit is your prime guideline for any action. If it makes profit to pollute then you pollute. If carbon is to be removed it has to be profitable. If it makes profit to do both, then you do both.

[geo] Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation -- website launched

2017-06-07 Thread David Beerling
Core programme and associated detail only at this stage. Further information to follow as the programme evolves. http://lc3m.org/ -- Professor David Beerling FRS Director, Leverhulme Centre for

Re: [geo] Team launches initiative to develop viable market for waste carbon dioxide | ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact

2017-06-07 Thread Adam Dorr
I think the notion that "We’ve got to get the tons out of the atmosphere, and we’ve got to make money doing it” may be fundamentally misguided. The total market potential for CO2 as an industrial input is, to a first approximation, at least 2 orders of magnitude lower than the quantity of CO2 that

[geo] Team launches initiative to develop viable market for waste carbon dioxide | ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact

2017-06-07 Thread Andrew Lockley
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Re: [geo] Iron-dumping ocean experiment sparks controversy

2017-06-07 Thread 'Robert Tulip' via geoengineering
Thanks Phil, it seems Russ maynot have been familiar with the UN accreditation process.    The big issues here are about the debatearound the IPCC vision of climate change, the political priority the ParisAccord gives to emission reduction, and how OIF and carbon dioxide removal morebroadly

Re: [geo] Iron-dumping ocean experiment sparks controversy

2017-06-07 Thread Phillip Williamson (ENV)
Robert - The fact that Russ George wasn't allowed into the UN Ocean Conference is almost certainly irrelevant. UN meetings are not public meetings, but are for representatives of governments who are UN members. Representatives of UN-accredited organisations (including NGOs and academic

Fw: [geo] Iron-dumping ocean experiment sparks controversy

2017-06-07 Thread 'Robert Tulip' via geoengineering
- Forwarded Message - From: Andrew Lockley To: Robert Tulip Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2017, 18:00 Subject: Re: [geo] Iron-dumping ocean experiment sparks controversy Suggest you post this to the list  On 7 Jun 2017 00:10,