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Rule three of offsets: No geo-engineering Smacking down a bad idea	Joseph Romm	27 Jul 2007	Gristmill
I know you've all been eagerly waiting for this (don't worry, I don't have many more rules). I got sidetracked by last week's offset hearing. Offset projects should deliver climate benefits with high confidence -- that's a key reason trees make lousy offsets, especially non-urban, non-tropical trees. An even more dubious source of offsets is geo-engineering, which is 'the intentional large scale manipulation of the global environment' (PDF) to counter ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, geoengineering, oceans (all these topics)

Timber industry rent seeking Making things out of wood sequesters carbon, turns out	David Roberts	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
One telling point that carbon tax advocates make against cap-and-trade systems is that they create an enormous incentive for rent-seeking. Now it seems the timber industry is getting in on the game. Via Greenwire (sub rqd), this has my BS alarm all a-ringin': [Timber] Industry groups are lobbying Congress and making a public relations push to promote privately managed forests as carbon sinks -- a bid for a place in potential cap-and-trade schemes for greenhouse gas e ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, logging (all these topics)

Washington Post notes Planktos The new alchemy: Turning iron particles into gelt	JMG	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Turns out we here at Grist got a preview of his 'fringe environmentalist' testimony to Congress. Too bad the Post didn't mention his cold fusion background; that really puts this scheme into perspective. It's just the eco-version of the same old same old. (There's one born every minute, and two to take his money ... )
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, geoengineering, oceans, waste (all these topics)

Liquid coal op-ed Come and read it	David Roberts	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I've got an op-ed on the Guardian's opinion site about -- what else? -- liquid coal. Here's how it starts: They say the first thing you should do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. But if there's one thing the coal industry loves, it's digging. Generating electricity by burning coal has ravaged the climate, but it's made coal barons in the US rich. They worried for a while that global warming would mean the end of the gravy train - they're the o ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

Why geosequestration is another distraction Always keep the bait dangling just out of reach	JMG	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The July/August 2007 issue of World Watch magazine (produced by the Worldwatch Institute) includes a concise demolition of carbon geosequestration in the form of a letter to the editor by one Luc Gagnon, 'a senior advisor on climate change for Hydro-Quebec.' I'd quote the letter but the Worldwatch site doesn't have it online yet. So I went searching for more by Gagnon and found this short, powerful PDF making essentially the same point (in almost the same language). An intere ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Low-hanging fruit Dirt cheap carbon	biodiversivist	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Great interview over on Mongabay with Daniel Nepstad, head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program. When it comes to immediate carbon emissions reductions, the biggest bang for the buck is to stop deforestation of the tropics. This revelation would have much less relevance if there were not also a mechanism envisioned to achieve it called the RED initiative (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation). As with anything, the concept has its critics. In my unqu ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics)

Not-so-easy listenin' A couple of podcasts for your commuting pleasure	Daniel Bachhuber	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I've run across these shows in the past couple days, and thought fellow Gristmill readers might like to hear them too. The first is Science Friday's 'Hour One' from last week. There is a segment on carbon sequestration, which I have yet to form an opinion on, and also one on generating hydrogen. The second, which I'm actually listening to as we speak, is about the economic benefits of 'going green.' Apparently being environmentally conscious is a smart business move ...
Topics: business, carbon sequestration, green living, hydrogen (all these topics)

Feel the carbon sequestration love BP pulls out of its one actual carbon sequestration project	David Roberts	24 May 2007	Gristmill
Everyone seems to agree that carbon sequestration is going to save us from global warming. That's why the Scottish government announced it would have a competition, awarding the creation of an actual carbon sequestration facility with a big fat financial reward. BP spent $50 million just preparing to build such a facility. But then the Scots wanted a little more time to assess it -- another year -- which led BP to scrap the whole project. A technology that costs so ...
Topics: business, carbon sequestration, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The CO2 sings 'Bury me, buuuu-reee me, bury me, across the world' Charcoal carbon sequestration -- birth of a new CO2 removal wedge?	JMG	04 May 2007	Gristmill
I would love to hear Graham Nash and David Crosby rerecord their old 'Carry Me' song about agrichar and removing carbon from the atmosphere while revitalizing soils: 'Bury me, buuuu-reee me, bury me, across the world ...' This is sounding so good it's scary -- like I am being set up to have my bubble burst when it turns out to violate one or more basic physical laws, or only be net negative by ignoring some huge emissions somewhere in the process, or whatever. But for toda ...
Topics: biofuels, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Polluting to save the planet: RealClimate disapproves And why wouldn't they?	Gar Lipow	04 May 2007	Gristmill
RealClimate, a blog run by leading climate scientists, thinks Planktos's scheme to dump iron particles in the ocean to make plankton bloom and sequester carbon is 'thin soup.' I have some extended quotes from David Archer on the subject below the fold. But if you are interested, read the whole thing. In spite of public relations claims by Planktos representatives in comments, it appears that most of the scientific community does not think highly of the Planktos claim ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, geoengineering (all these topics)

Today in Big Coal Shenanigans everywhere	David Roberts	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The WSJ has a story today about the high hopes riding on the few large-scale carbon-capture demonstration projects under construction. The entire global political and economic elite desperately wants carbon sequestration to work, so they can keep us hooked up to the fossil fuel mainline. But as the WSJ notes, it's a tough row to hoe: Unlike oil or gas fields, power plants aren't always conveniently located near geological formations where carbon dioxide can be store ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

Coal is the enemy of the human race Still	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
An extensive Christian Science Monitor analysis reveals that "nations will add enough coal-fired capacity in the next five years to create an extra 1.2 billion tons of CO2 per year." In all, at least 37 nations plan to add coal-fired capacity in the next five years -- up from the 26 nations that added capacity during the past five years. With Sri Lanka, Laos, and even oil-producing nations like Iran getting set to join the coal-power pack, the ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy (all these topics)

Sequester Requester Coal sequestration a near-future necessity; one utility gets a jump start		16 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Sequester Requester Coal sequestration a near-future necessity; one utility gets a jump start If coal's going to be viable in an emissions-regulated future, we need to hurry up and learn the how-tos of carbon sequestration, says a new study from MIT. The U.S. should take the lead and fund three to five emissions-burying demo projects within the decade, says the report; meanwhile, companies should be charged for CO ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, news (all these topics)

Comic Re-Leaf On plants and global warming	Umbra Fisk	03 Apr 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My simple understanding of global warming is that we are introducing long-buried carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is shifting the balance, leading to a host of undesirable issues. CO2 is consumed by plants, so here's my thought: Could we grow crops that consume a lot of CO2 (I'm thinking bamboo here, which grows really quickly) and then bury them, effectively taking the CO2 they've consumed out of the atmosp ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, carbon sequestration, climate, deforestation (all these topics)

Peak oil, coal, and bizarre optimism	David Roberts	28 Mar 2006	Gristmill
So last week Salon ran a big story on peak oil by Katharine Mieszkowski. It was decent, though focused a bit too much on the loony fringes. I guess the temptation to do that is irresistible when trying to make a long story about the Hubbert Curve and Venezuelan oil reserves compelling. In response, John Quiggen (at the usually excellent Crooked Timber group blog) wrote a response I can only characterize as bizarre. But the comments under the post don't treat it a ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, oil (all these topics)

Coal Reversal Climate campaigners warm to 'advanced coal' and sequestration, despite Bush backing	Amanda Griscom Little	16 Dec 2005	Muckraker
Climate campaigners warm to "advanced coal" and sequestration, despite Bush backing By Amanda Griscom Little 16 Dec 2005 Bush administration officials tried their darnedest to derail the international climate-change negotiations that wrapped up in Montreal last week. But in the midst of their bombastic no-no-no-ing, they did offer up one constructive idea -- a $950 million partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy and industry leaders to build FutureGen, a "p ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, Department of Energy, energy, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Coal Position Bush admin isn't putting money where its mouth is on 'clean coal'	Amanda Griscom Little	03 Dec 2004	Muckraker
Bush admin isn't putting money where its mouth is on "clean coal" By Amanda Griscom Little 03 Dec 2004 When pressed on climate change, the Bush administration is fond of citing "clean coal" technology as the wave of the energy future. Even some enviros are starting to grudgingly acknowledge the technology's potential for good. Coal: Can you dig it? Photo: NREL. But all Bush's talk doesn't appear to be translating into the funding needed to really get clean coal ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, politics, tech (all these topics)

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