Contractual issues for CCS are complex, poorly understood, and expanding rapidly. I gave this paper www.pure.ed.ac.uk/admin/files/... at www.oxfordenergy.org annual Carbon Management Day 2025 on 227 March. Great discussions and much more work to be done in the field. #CCS #CDR #carboncontracts
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
Beautifully done by Private Eye...
Apols, some misspelling in the above. But the sense is hopefully course. In truth, I think there’s little between us.
The first is a restatement of the above. The second is an argument about the role of RE. Sure. If cdr draws so much RE that it undermines decarbonisation, then we’re agreed (like most people). But it’s simplistic to assume that that’s the case. And most daccs researchers with on those alternatives
It wasn’t name calling. It was a slight surprise at your poor argumentation. Not since you have now started your points properly…1) agreed that decarbonisation has to be prioritised (never known any scholar in the field to disagree) and 2) well, your serving point is a conflation of two arguments.
That’s hilarious. So instead of engaging with my argument, you shift the debate to your own ground. A fine Trumpian move. He’d be proud.
Yes. I literally read it. My argument doesn’t rely on any temporal distinction.
You are being disingenuous. Both things need to happen, with the priority being on decarbonisation. Doesn’t help to be manichaean. (I’m assuming you were a literate 10y.o.)
Check out my running activity on Garmin Connect. #beatyesterday
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Authoritarian vandalism doesn’t begin to cover this.
A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
Today, we pause for remembrance on the anniversary of the Munich air disaster.
#FlowersOfManchester
Carbon Take Back Obligations curious?: www.carbon-balance.earth/briefs-repor.... Superb work by Carbon Balance (Mirte B + @ingriduddsundvor.bsky.social ), leading academics (Stuart Jenkins + Myles Allen), and industry partners. Deserves and will get lots of attention. @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social
Agree with everything you say George. But let’s not pretend that the PA made any meaningful contribution to decarbonisation, or ever would. It was a poor treaty, agreed in advance between China and the US. It would never disrupt BAU. Sadly.
You can withdraw from political compacts, which is what they are.
Given the fatuity of those accords, pacts etc at the time of assent, I suspect the State Dept will not think it necessary to waste the key strokes in withdrawing from them.
That's a more subtle point so I can give them a pass on that. wrt reporting obligations under FCCC - yep.
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social. On Trump/Paris Agreement. BBC Radio 4 just (at 1813) said the US is the world largest CO2 emitter. It isnt. China is, has been for about 15 years, and is roughly twice the US. Got to get the basics right.
Scientists developed the first climate models in the late 1960s (for which the Nobel Prize in physics was recently awarded!).
How have these models held up against what happened in the real world after they were published? Surprisingly well, it turns out:
Every teacher will be using this next semester. Brilliant.
Since the start of last season, Dominic Solanke has scored more goals in Manchester United matches than Antony has (5-4).
Terrifically useful/grim figure.
The coldest of cold takes. Anyone who's thought about DAC for five seconds agrees it is nowhere near ready to deploy, too expensive, and faces huge engineering challenges. Like any nascent technology.
Pleased to say that my article on #COP29 has just been published by the Law Society of Scotland: tinyurl.com/dpd4jbws. I take a pretty dim view of the proceedings. Do tell me where I got it wrong!
Is this the soon-to-be-unemployed Finance Minister? Right, ok..
I wonder if Simon S also wastes words praying to his God? Although She might welcome climate change’s hastening of the rapture.
In the Olympiad of fine intentions, does this make the podium?
