Reviewer 2 does geoengineering
Episodes
Temperature overshoot - Schwinger
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jörg Schwinger presents work showing temperature overshoots can be recovered from, using CDR. @geoengineering1 finds lots to take issue with - model ...
SRM & justice for the global poor - Hourdequin
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marion Hourdequin explains her paper, which criticised Horton & Keith's justifications for SRM research. Considering various types of justice, she exp...
How to argue about SRM - Clark
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Britta Clark schools @geoengineering1 on "How to argue about solar geoengineering". This will only encourage him, and generally make him even more ins...
Fertilisers & enhanced weathering - Wood
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron Wood shows experimentally how phosphate fertilizers catalyse silicate weathering, but the lack of a techno-economic analysis (TEA) leaves @geo...
How to compare CDR approaches - Chiquier
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you compare biochar to DAC, or afforestation to enhanced weathering? Plug all the details into Solene Chiquier's galaxy brain, that's how. She'...
Can YOU stop SRM? Viviani & Galpern
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donn Viviani & Dan Galpern look at how individual petitioners could put an end to US firms' deployment of SRM. Background info provided by guests: Cur...
Vorrath pt2 - Sex and slavery in academia
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Maria-Elena Vorrath shares disturbing stories of sexual harassment and borderline modern slavery in academia. This episode also concludes discussi...
Vorrath pt1 - PYMICCS: enhanced weathering & biochar
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maria-Elena Vorrath discusses the Pymiccs project, combining enhanced weathering and biochar https://cdrterra.de/en/consortia/pymiccs
Carbon taxes & CDR subsidies - Franks
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Max Franks explores the link between the price for a carbon tax and the optimal subsidy for CDR. How and why do they differ? https://www.sciencedirect...
IMPORTANT! Pioneers or pirates? Make Sunsets' sell & launch SAI
31 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Iseman and Andrew Song from "Make Sunsets" explain why they've launched SAI balloons and sold cooling credits to customers.
Smet's2 - weathering trials in a Greek cotton field
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After pausing to school @geoengineering1 on the rock cycle in pt1, Ingrid Smet from Fieldcode finally gets chance to describe her cotton field trials ...
Smet's1 - weathering & the rock cycle
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Smet brings @geoengineering1 up to speed on the chemical and geological processes behind enhanced weathering for carbon dioxide removal. Check ...
Who pays for CDR - Höglund
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Höglund argues that companies with low CO2 emissions should pay for high quality CDR. @geoengineering1 pushes back, on what amounts to a licen...
Values and bias in CDR models - Hollnaicher, S
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do CDR models serve to entrench existing societal injustices, or challenge them? Simon Hollnaicher tries to explain the answer to @geoengineering1, wh...
Universal governance - Weil
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can one governance system rule all technologies? Gabriel Weil defends his universal framework in the face of an absolute onslaught from @geoengineerin...
A case for SRM - Lockley
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This isn't really a Reviewer 2 episode, it's just some audio we had lying around. We decided to use it, as we have been too lazy to do a proper episod...
Temporary CDR - Hoglund
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robert was too lazy to to write a paper, but his blog got quite a lot of attention, so we let him on. Blog: What is the value of temporary carbon remo...
A central bank for carbon markets? Rickels
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wilfried Rickels' paper proposes a central bank to subsidise CDR and control carbon permit prices. What could possibly go wrong? Paper: Removal Certif...
Emulating Volcanic Climate Impacts - Marshall
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back, after an extended period of laziness! Lauren schools us on modelling and emulating Volcanic Climate Impacts. Paper: Unknown Eruption Sourc...
Ok, Doomer! SRM & catastrophic risk - Tang
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Could SRM trigger a catastrophe that kills billions? Aaron Tang @aawktang and Gideon Futerman @GFuterman treat this subject with the seriousness you'd...
AspiraDAC - modular DAC with MOF sorbents.
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Turecek from AspiraDAC and Rohan Gillespie from Southern Green Gas discuss modular DAC using MOFs with @geoengineering1 . Reviewer 2 (and its i...
SRM & the Montreal Protocol - Bhasin
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shikha Bhasin from the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (ceew.in) explains how the Montreal protocol could be a key tool to regulate SRM. Pape...
Surveying experts' views - Sovacool
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Sovacool gives @geoengineering1 a bad case of imposter syndrome, with his monster opinion survey of expert views. Papers discussed: Climate...
Carbon Business Council
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Rubin defends the Carbon Business Council from an attempted mauling by @geoengineering1 https://www.carbonbusinesscouncil.org/ https://twitter.co...
Getting it up - Wake Smith
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wake Smith explains two recent papers on aviation to @geoengineering1. The first deals with low altitude (13kms) polar deployment, using existing airc...
Carbon negative oil - Wilson
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's all about fracking! Sasha Wilson explains carbon negative oil to the covid-zombie formerly known as @geoengineering1. Paper: https://www.scienced...
Using tropospheric COS emissions for SRM - Quaglia
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ilaria Quaglia explains what's potentially the most important SRM paper in over 10 years to @geoengineering1 Paper: https://acp.copernicus.org/article...
When to quit researching MCB - Diamond
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Diamond gives a very one-sided interview with a muted @geoengineering1, explaining when we should stop researching MCB. Paper: To assess marin...
Space mirrors: experts' views - Baum
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chad M. Baum discusses his expert elicitation work on space mirrors. (Reading list / glossary below paper link) Paper: Renewable and Sustainable Energ...
Moral hazard & sunk costs - Grant
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will Grant explores moral hazard, and capital & cultural lock in. Hosted by Aryan Gupta https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614529211069839...
Ozone changes in GeoMIP - Tilmes
29 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Simone Tilmes discusses ozone changes in the geoengineering model Intercomparison project (GeoMIP) with @geoengineering1. Paper: https://acp.copernicu...
Low-carbon DAC heat (& fibre sorbents) - Realff
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this fact-packed monster episode, Matthew Realff brings news of Georgia Tech's amazing fibre DAC sorbents. Then he EVENTUALLY gets round to talking...
Governing novel environmental technologies - Rabitz
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Florian Rabitz speaks to @geoengineering1 about AI, gene drives, SRM and how these can be regulated. Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pimp my CDR - Deschamps on vacuum swing optimization
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Deschamps explains to @geoengineering1 how to race-tune the Climeworks DAC plant, using Aspen chemical engineering software. Paper: Modeling of...
Moisture swing DAC - Singh
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meenesh Singh speaks to @geoengineering1 about the paper "Migration-assisted, moisture gradient process for ultrafast, continuous CO2 capture from dil...
Energy efficiency of DAC - Ryan M Long-Innes
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How efficient can DAC plants be? Aryan Gupta interviews Ryan M Long-Innes on his paper https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/13681 Thermodynami...
Reynolds - Climate Overshoot Commission
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
@JesseLReynolds speaks to @geoengineering1 about the Climate Overshoot Commission Launch https://www.overshootcommission.org/ @overshoot_comm
Cirrus clouds and aerosol rain out - Sporre
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Moa Sporre schools @geoengineering1 on what happens to aerosols that fall out of the stratosphere and into cirrus clouds. Prior project mentioned: CAR...
Does seaweed CDR work? Gallagher
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aryan Gupta interviews John Barry Gallagher from the University of Tasmania. They discuss the complexities of calculating whether seaweed is carbon ne...
Ocean Iron Fertilization - Lambert
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fabrice Lambert discusses the role of natural ocean iron fertilization in glacial periods, and what this means for artificial OIF today. Paper: https:...
Pandora's toolbox review - Wake Smith
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aviation specialist Wake Smith is interviewed by @aryangupta___ on his forthcoming book, "Pandora's Toolbox". Book link: https://www.cambridge.org/cor...
Ship tracks & termination shock - Simons
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are low sulfur marine fuels causing termination shock? Leon Simons gives R2 some very bad news. Citation: Climate Impact of Decreasing Atmospheric Sul...
Bala pt2 - SRM & the global south
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bala continues his discussion with an interesting exploration of the challenges of integrating the global South into research and negotiations on geoe...
Bala, pt1 - Monsoons
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bala explains monsoons, and how single hemisphere geoengineering might affect them. Paper: Krishnamohan, K.S., Bala, G. Sensitivity of tropical monsoo...
Private sector geoengineering - Borth
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ishita Mundra debuts as presenter, interviewing Amanda Borth on the role of the private sector in combined SRM and CDR scenarios. Paper: The private s...
Geoengineering, the gamble - Wagner
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gernot Wagner talks about genocide, death threats, and the corruption of academia. He's not a man you want to mess with. So, when he tries to sell you...
A defence of SRM - Irvine
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Irvine is a stalwart of SRM. Here, he makes the case for its continued consideration as a policy option. This comes at a time when ongoing resear...
DICE, coalitions and tipping points - Shayegh
22 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Soheil Shayegh tries and fails to convince @geoengineering1 that abstract models of international cooperation offer useful insights into the behaviour...
International Non-Use Agreement - Cooper & Futerman
22 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Cooper @AMCooper86 and Gideon Futerman @GFuterman discuss the International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering letter from https://www.so...
Arctic SAI - Walker Lee
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Cornell Mafia are taking over the Arctic. Walker Lee explains how their high-latitude, low-altitude scheme works. It's an offer you can't refuse.
MOFs & Zeolites - Sholl
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can Metal Organic Frameworks and Zeolites be used for Direct Air Capture? Spoiler: no. Paper link https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06924
Enhanced oil recovery - Righetti
08 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tara Righetti discusses her book chapter on enhanced oil recovery and how it can become part of a low carbon future. This chapter is at https://link.s...
Qualitative scenarios - Morrow
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Morrow shows how you can make up nonsense about Bruce Willis and still get it published in a journal. Next level mastery, for all those who stru...
Artificial lighting in tropical forests - Gao
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can lighting up tropical forests at night store carbon in a practical way? Gao discusses the possibility and its challenges with @geoengineering1 http...
Biotic silicate weathering - Vicca
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Vicca schools @geoengineering1 on biotic silicate weathering. He, meanwhile, screws up the audio production to previously unimagined levels of di...
Geoengineering in the media - Borth
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Borth from George Mason discusses whether geoengineering is covered effectively in the media. Reviewer 2 recalls his days of freelance writing,...
MEER - Ye Tao
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can your humble bathroom mirror be the basis of a terrestrial solar geoengineering scheme? Ye Tao looks at scaling this simple solution - with the sur...
Public goods & scaling CDR - Symons
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are the social and political barriers to scaling CDR? Symons and @geoengineering1 discuss first-movers and a public goods framing. They then cons...
SRM and Iceland - Moore
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Beiji...
Game theory, coalitions & SRM - Heyen
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The actual Reviewer 2 Jesse Reynolds becomes our Reviewer 2 and interviews Daniel Heyen on his coalition formation paper. "Solar geoengineering govern...
DICE, Moral Hazard and SRM - Belaia
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
CCT - Mitchell
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Mitchell explains cirrus cloud thinning in detail, and why climate models without mountains get it badly wrong. There is no paper reference here...
Ocean CDR's natural analogues - Bach
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can natural ocean processes help us understand how ocean CDR might work? Discussion of "Seeking natural analogs to fast-forward the assessment of mari...
DAC's carbon footprint
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does the carbon footprint of Direct Air Capture negate its environmental benefits? Balint Simon discusses his paper, "Material flows and Embodied Ener...
River diversion to deliberately melt the Arctic??? Julian Hunt
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Hunt relives the highest of high modernism with his cold war style project to divert northern rivers and deliberately melt the Arctic. This wil...
CCS size and failure risk - Wang
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nan Wang explains why bigger CCS projects are more likely to fail. "What went wrong? Learning from three decades of carbon capture, utilization and se...
News & views, Gideon and Andrew
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
News from @gfuterman and @geoengineering1 covering IPCC, Holly Jean Buck & tribalism, Australian MCB trials, Andy Parker on slippery slope, and much e...
Global Thermostat co - Eisenberger
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Global Thermostat founder Peter Eisenberger steamrollers Andrew (@geoengineering1) in this challenging interview about his company's controversial cul...
Caustic comments: Alkalinity concentration swing CDR - Rinberg and Bergman
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Comrade Rinberg and Comrade Bergman discuss their revolutionary alkalinity concentration swing CDR. This will be deployed after they've organised an u...
Research ethics in geoengineering - Galbraith
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do ethics considerations affect the choices made by researchers as they propose and optimise geoengineering models? Paper link: https://www.scienc...
Bulk CO2 storage - Tutolo
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happens underground, when we try to store billions of tonnes of CO2? Andrew finds out (while noisily defrosting his freezer). Paper: Alkalinity G...
Slippery slopes - Adelman
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode has it all: Slippery slopes; Santa; Nazis; luxury beliefs; Henry Ford; Putin; cattle raids; and apostrophes. Nearly 2h of tangents and sq...
Volcanoes - Thomas Aubry
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew gets thoroughly confused, as Thomas Aubry discusses how volcanoes might change in a warmer world. Three papers discussed: https://acp.copernicu...
Geoengineering and Green New Deal - Baiman
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Baiman and Andrew do not play nicely together - they argue, bicker and squabble about geoengineering and a Green New Deal. Paper reference: "In Su...
Geo-engineering vs geoengineering - Oomen
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeroen Oomen, postdoc at Utrecht, on geo-engineering (AKA geotechnical engineering) vs geoengineering (AKA climate engineering). 1 subject, or 2? Fami...
Loons with balloons
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will tech billionaires and their fan clubs change the climate for a hobby? All the paper's authors come to trade blows with Reviewer 2 (except David M...
Crop albedo in Australia, with Jatin Kala
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Could crop albedo modification reduce regional warming over Australia? Weather and Climate Extremes Volume 30, December 2020, 100282, Jatin Kala, Anne...
A comparative energy and costs assessment and optimization for direct air capture technologies. Matteo Gazzani.
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Andrew welcomes guest Matteo Gazzani from Utrecht University, to discuss the paper "A comparative energy and costs assessment and opt...
Thomas Rinder on "The influence of particle size on the potential of enhanced basalt weathering for carbon dioxide removal - Insights from a regional assessment"
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Thomas Rinder from University of Salzburg, to talk about the paper "The influence of particle size on the potenti...
Xiaoxiao Li talks about the paper Direct Air Capture via Natural Draft Dry Cooling Tower
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Andrew is joined by paper's "Direct Air Capture via Natural Draft Dry Cooling Tower" author Xiaoxiao Li, from the Chongqing Universit...
Mei Chee Tan and Hong Yee Low on their paper: Textured carbon capture composite (C3) films for distributed direct air capture in urban spaces
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Andrew welcomes Mei Chee Tan and Hong Yee Low, from the Singapore University of Technology and Design, to talk about their paper Text...
Jakob Rønning on problems with limestone Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jakob Rønning, Title: "Alkaline minerals as a tool to mitigate ocean acidification and facilitate CO2 from the atmosphere". Conclusion: "olivine and...
Jeffrey Amelse discusses landfilling biomass
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amelse, J.; Behrens, P.K. Sequestering Biomass for Natural, Efficient, and Low-Cost Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide. Preprints 2021, 2021060212 (...
Space sunshade: Ross Centers from planetarysunshade.org
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ross is the Executive Director of the Planetary Sunshade Foundation, organizing research on space-based geoengineering. https://planetarysunshade.org
Sudhanshu Jain comments the paper Methods for Dispersal of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sudhanshu Jain, comments the paper that presents two methods for the lab-scale formation of aerosols of nanosized particles of precip...
Daniele Visioni and Gideon Futerman discuss the Event Solar Geoengineering: Warnings from Scientists, Indigenous Peoples, Youth, and Climate Activists
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, student Gideon Futerman welcomes researcher Daniele Visioni to discuss the event Solar Geoengineering: Warnings from Scientists, Indi...
Capturing CO2 from seawater? Paul Halloran talks to Andrew about SeaCure and his exciting research.
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The article discussed by Digdaya et al is at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18232-y For some background to this research: http://ww...
SAI using solar powered lofting - Pengfei Yu and Andrew discuss exciting research into a delivery technology for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pengfei Yu is a co-author in this ground breaking paper titled "Toward practical stratospheric aerosol albedo modification: Solar-powered lofting"&nbs...
Jens Hartman talks to Andrew about his enhanced weathering paper for the Goldschmidt conference plus plenty of great links to Project 'Carbdown' field trials.
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jens Hartmann (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil.) of the Institute for Geology / Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability at Universität Hamburg ...
Tyler Felgenhauer and Andrew discuss US policy and solar geoengineering research.
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Felgenhauer discusses his exciting paper on the politics of solar geoengineeering research specifically in relation to the U.S policy agenda. A ...
Andrew and Walker Lee talk all things geoengineering -CDR/SRM and all the other acronyms are covered in this essential bulletin.
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew and Walker discussed a wide variety of things - here are some useful links: Aluminum increases net carbon fixation by marine diatoms and...
Andrew and guest presenter Gideon Futerman critically examine recent geoengineering news
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some links discussed in the program: https://www.heirloomcarbon.com https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6273/597 https://twitter.co...
Clarissa Kroll discusses the impact of volanic eruptions on stratospheric water vapour in the tropics
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing her current paper, Clarissa Kroll talks to Andrew about the impact of volcanic eruptions on stratospheric water vapour in the tropics. ...
Colleen Golja discusses her role in the SCoPEx experiment with reviewer 2
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A great dive into the depths of aerosol dynamics for the Harvard SCoPEx experiment in Sweden, which as everyone knows has just been postponed until 20...
Eliot Peper talks to reviewer 2 about his Novel 'Veil', a dystopian near future shaped by geoengineering
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Mike Wolovick discusses engineering techniques to slow down glaciers, reducing sea level rise
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Mike Wolovick, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the College of Global Change and Earth Systems Science, Beijing Normal University. ...
Pippa Gawley of Zero Carbon Capital talks to Andrew about investing in startup up climate tech.
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pippa Gawley is an experienced investor (with a science and investing background) and here explains the how and why of companies that show promi...
Raymond Tan gives Andrew his expert view on large-scale enhanced weathering on the economy/environment.
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 im...
Oliver Morton and Andrew talk about geoengineering, terra forming and the rest- ALL the fascinating chat you could possibly wish for
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The fantastic @eaterofsun AKA Oliver Morton author of many books and articles including -The Moon: A History for the Future -The Planet remade: How Ge...
Zhen Dai returns to talk to Andrew about the ozone response to calcium carbonate geoengineering
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another instalment from Zhen Dai, here to talk about her latest paper: "Experimental reaction rates constrain estimates of ozone resp...