by faster | Aug 14, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Carbon Brief DATE: August 14, 2018 SNIP: Model scenarios that limit warming to 1.5C or 2C typically rely on large amounts of “negative emissions” to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and store it on land, underground or in the oceans. Bioenergy crops with carbon...
by faster | Mar 13, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Scientific American DATE: March 13, 2018 SNIP: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its Fifth Assessment Report, presented more than 100 modeled scenarios that it said had a high likelihood of keeping global temperatures within 2 degrees Celsius...
by faster | Jan 31, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Carbon Brief and European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) DATE: January 31, 2018 SNIP: The potential for using negative emissions technologies to help meet the goals of the Paris Agreement could be more “limited” than previously thought, concludes...
by faster | Jan 22, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: January 22, 2018 SNIP: Widespread use of a futuristic energy technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would create severe environmental problems, scientists argue in a new critique, casting doubt on one potential method of...
by faster | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Wired DATE: December 10, 2017 SNIP: The UN report envisions 116 scenarios in which global temperatures are prevented from rising more than 2°C. In 101 of them, that goal is accomplished by sucking massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—a concept...