✍️"Policy concern: whether forests should be left unharvested to reduce CO2 #emissions & store C, or harvested to take advantage of potential #CarbonStorage & #removal."
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So, new study addressed this issue "by examining C rotation ages that consider commercial timber and C values. A discrete-time optimal rotation age model is developed that uses data on C #fluxes stored in living & dead biomass as opposed to C as a function of timber growth." 2/8
"Carbon is allocated to several ecosystem and post-harvest product pools that decay over time at different rates. In addition, the timing of #CarbonFluxes is taken into account by weighting future carbon fluxes as less important than current ones." 3/8
Using simple formulae for determining optimal 𝐂 𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, this study draws the following conclusions:
1️⃣ "Reducing the price of timber while increasing the price of #carbon will increase rotation age, perhaps to infinity (stand remains unharvested)." 4/8
2️⃣ "An increase in the rate used to discount physical carbon generally reduces the rotation age, but not in all cases."
3️⃣ "As a corollary, an increase in the price of #carbon increases or reduces rotation age depending on the weight chosen to discount future #CarbonFluxes." 5/8
4️⃣ "Site characteristics and the mix of species on the site affect conclusions 2️⃣ and 3️⃣."
5️⃣ "A large variety of #CarbonOffset credits from forestry activities could be justified, which makes it difficult to accept any." 6/8
📜🌲 Read the open-access paper entitled: "Determining optimal forest rotation ages and carbon offset credits: Accounting for post-harvest carbon storehouses," here ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
🚨A NEW study explores a theoretical #geoengineering approach to combat global warming — by altering Earth’s orbit.
Simulations suggest that shifting Earth ~5.8% farther from the Sun could cool the planet by roughly 7K, effectively offsetting projected warming.
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2/ Climate models suggest global temperatures could rise by 7K by 2100, driven by greenhouse gas emissions.
This study asks: what if, instead of changing the atmosphere, we changed our position in space?
Specifically: increase Earth’s orbital radius.
3/ Basically, the paper builds on the science of Milankovitch cycles which is slow, natural variations in Earth’s orbit and tilt that have triggered past ice ages.
These cycles show that even slight orbital changes can dramatically affect climate.
CALL FOR RESEARCH PRESENTATION PROPOSAL—RFF and the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program invite individuals to present research at their upcoming workshop
JPMorgan signed 13-year deal with CO280 to remove 450,000 tons of biogenic CO₂ from a U.S. pulp mill at under $200/ton—one of the largest and lowest-cost CDR deals to date.
🚨AstroCool is a proposed emergency geoengineering plan by inventor David Chaum.
It involves mining moon dust & launching it into a space orbit between the Sun & Earth to shade the planet & restore pre-industrial temperatures.🧵1/12
#SRM #SolarGeoengineering #ClimateSolutions
2/ AstroCool (the “Plan X” initiative) was unveiled by Chaum as a backup climate fix.
It proposes using centrifugal lunar launchers and robotic “droid” satellites to fling regolith into the Sun–Earth L1 point, creating a sunshade that cuts incoming sunlight.
3/ Scientists note lunar dust is unusually well-sized for this purpose:
Chaum explains most of the Moon’s surface is covered in ~0.2 µm grains “perfect for blocking light”.