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ICYM any recent developments in the field of #CarbonDioxideRemoval published btw ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ & ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐, here are links to (in๐งตโฌ๏ธ) all pertinent research papers, news articles, reports, thesis, event recordings, & podcasts โฌ๏ธ
๐จNew Viewpoint published in Frontiers that responds to Siegert et al.โs paper.
While Siegert et al. warn against polar #geoengineering, Moore et al. argue for a compassionate harm-reduction paradigm, keeping geoengineering research open alongside decarbonization.
Their case: interventions are risky, may not work, and could distract from the essential task which is deep decarbonization.frontiersin.org/journals/scienโฆ
3/ Moore et al. [] reply that this โconsequences-based paradigmโ (raising alarms to spur action), has dominated climate science for 50 years.
๐จNew Nature Geoscience study shows that blooms of Phaeocystis antarctica (microalgae) in the Southern Ocean ~14,000 yrs ago massively drew down COโ, stabilizing climate. Their decline today could have global consequences.
#CarbonSink #CarbonDrawdown
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2/ Microalgae are pivotal in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle.
A new study from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) reveals that during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (14.7โ12.7k yrs BP), algal blooms slowed the rise of atmospheric COโ.
3/ At the end of the last ice age, the Antarctic Cold Reversal brought vast winter sea ice followed by strong spring melt.
These unique conditions fueled Phaeocystis antarctica blooms, exceptionally efficient at capturing and exporting carbon.
๐จResearchers at the KAIST and the @MIT have developed a new fiber-based material that can capture CO2 directly from the air using only small amounts of electricity, potentially lowering the barriers to large-scale deployment of direct air capture (#DAC) technology.
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2/ DAC systems, which remove CO2 directly from ambient air, have long been hindered by their high energy requirements.
With atm COโ concentrations at less than 400ppm, vast volumes of air must be processed, typically requiring large amounts of heat.
3/ The joint team, led by Professor Ko Dong-yeon of KAIST & Professor T. Alan Hatton of MIT, overcame this limitation by designing an electrically conductive fiber adsorbent (ethylenediamine EDA-Y zeolite/cellulose acetate (CA) fiber) that heats itself through Joule heating.
๐จIn a new study published in @OneEarth_CP, researchers reveal that human land activities have stripped away roughly 24% of terrestrial carbon stocks (equivalent to 344 billion metric tons of C), underscoring an urgent need to reframe land-use & climate policy.
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2/ Plants + soils store more carbon than the atmosphere + all fossil reserves combined.
But farming, grazing, and forest use have stripped away this natural shield, turning land from a carbon bank into a carbon source.
3/ Researchers call this loss the terrestrial carbon deficit - the gap between what ecosystems could hold (โpotentialโ) vs. what they actually hold (โactualโ).