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Skeptical Science New Research for Week #10, 2021
Systems Thinking
An article by Stenzel et al highlights the Jenga-like nature of digging (inhaling?) our way out from beneath the cloud of CO2 we ve emitted. Biomass capture of CO2 is an intuitively attractive method of controlling the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere especially as it s also a potential means of storing energy, but as with so many other technologies this approach needs full circumspection before we let it off the leash. Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change is open access, free to read. The abstract:
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #9, 2021
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Skeptical Science New Research for Week #8, 2021
Ground truths on warming
When we think about rapid climate change of the kind we ve accidentally unleashed and the warming of Earth systems inherent in the process, we tend to focus on phenomena in order of their immediate tangibility, their drama. Sea ice loss in the Arctic, atmospheric and ocean warming, more ephemeral but dramatic events such as droughts and and fires dominate our perceptions. Cuesta-Valero et al offer a refined estimate and reminder of how the very ground beneath our feet is also of course inexorably warming, in Long-term global ground heat flux and continental heat storage from geothermal data, an open access article via EGU s
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #7, 2021
Geoengineering heats up
Sorry, that was irresistible. By chance in this edition of
New Research are two intriguing papers including different perspectives on the subject of geoengineering, a topic increasingly arousing emotions. Happily both of these papers are open access and free to read. A third article underlines that enthusiasm for or reliance on geoengineering isn t yet founded on full information about the forces we re contemplating, essentially supporting the case for both sets of conclusions offered by the other two papers.
Smith & Henly reason for circumspect and thorough research into stratospheric aerosol injection, a topic of recent negative attention and even calls to restrict or terminate such investigations.These impulses to don blinkers seem ironic given that a major part of our problem with climate change is a concerted effort on the part of vested interests to restrict scientific research, pretend that we can t