The world’s largest phosphate rock deposit has been found in Norway. ~90% of phosphate is used in agriculture as fertiliser, but it’s also used in solar panels and lithium-iron-phosphate batteries for electric vehicles.
Money is pouring into CDR, with sales rising 300% since April 2023. Supply? Not so much; less than 2% of the CDR purchases have been delivered, and half of them so far have been biochar.
A reporter asked what I thought of CCS. Before we're at zero emissions, the atmosphere doesn't care whether CCS or CDR is used for mitigation. The key is not to use it to prolong fossil fuel use and to truly sequester the CO₂ instead of using it for EOR.
This necessarily means CCS shouldn't be used on electricity-generating facilities that could be replaced by renewables but on truly hard-to-abate sectors like steel or cement. CCS might be unproven, but it's captured way more CO₂ than CDR.
“We don’t need to invent new technology. We don’t need to spend gazillions of dollars on research and development to come up with a miracle cure. We just need to implement some commonsense policy solutions and stop prioritising car culture over everything else. We have all the answers – we just don’t have the political will to implement them.”
Do y’all think about how the desert city of Dubai, which is hosting the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), has a huge indoor ski facility that has a lodge that uses gas heaters to keep guests warm?
@davidho I thought the joke ended at "city of Dubai, which is hosting the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28)", and was still hoping that it's an Onion's headline. Booy, it got downhill from there.
“Meaningful” is doing a lot of work here. For a really wealthy technoptimist who is willing to live in a bunker or on Mars, no amount of suffering by the 99% is meaningful.
Land use change is currently responsible for emitting 4,500,000,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year. It's small compared to fossil fuel CO₂ emissions, but it's not nothing.
To win the Musk-sponsored XPRIZE Carbon Removal you just have to demonstrate removing 1,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year.
Yeah, the first sentence alone proves that capitalists, who inherited all their money and assets from their parents, can be as dumb as a rock, even if they receive the highest education at rich, private schools.
"To win the Musk-sponsored XPRIZE Carbon Removal you just have to demonstrate removing 1,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year."
Killing Elmo would easily achieve that. Oh, and thanks, I don't need the prize money. You can donate it.
The climate deniers who claim that climate scientists are in it for the grant money should be forced to write and submit 10 grants.gov proposals as punishment.
@davidho A brilliant punishment to fit the crime except for all the right wing think tanks and corporate interests who would love poor quality dogma-pieces.
Mark my words, years from now, the media is going to ask why climate scientists, communicators, and activists didn’t do more to warn everyone about climate change.