Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option.
Ocean Conservancy
DECEMBER 12, 2023
As another year comes to a close, I am reflecting on the incredible progress Ocean Conservancy has made in 2023 towards a healthy, resilient ocean future. For better or worse, this is the nature of ocean conservation work—sometimes we hit roadblocks, but it’s a reminder of why this work is so critically important.
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A Greener Life
APRIL 1, 2022
Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated. The ocean as a carbon sink.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. Licker et al. And the third is “gas exchange.”
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. Sea levels are rising.
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
, but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane. In 2020, CO 2 was at ~410 parts per million, while CH 4 was around 1870 parts per <it>billion</it> (or 1.87 Historical comparisons. Stocks and flows.
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