Category Archives: carbon sequestration

Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Announcements, Antarctic, Arctic, Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, Citizen science, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, education, energy, ENSO, Environment, feedbacks, flooding, forecasting, geothermal energy, global warming, hurricanes, Land use land cover change, lightning, measurement, Methane, modeling, oceans, PDO, Science, sea ice, snowfall, Temperature, tornadoes, UHI, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 113 Comments

CEO: “The market for carbon capture and storage is dead”

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

The Norwegian company Aker Clean Carbon may be closed. Its value is set to zero. The market for carbon capture and storage is dead according to their CEO. Guest Post by Geir Hasnes, Norway Article in today’s net edition of … Continue reading →

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Carbon capture scrapped in the UK, “…descended into farce”

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

All they needed was unlimited money and it would have worked… From the BBC:

Posted in carbon sequestration, Climate FAIL | Tagged , , , | 118 Comments

The heartbreak of Emiliania huxleyi 

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

From San Francisco State University  another indication that nature is such a poor engineer that phytoplankton can’t adapt to a small change in ocean pH. But then again it is a closed lab experiment, not the ocean, and there’s those … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, oceans | Tagged , , | 151 Comments

Plant trees, not carbon laws

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

From the University of Michigan U-M ecologist: Future forests may soak up more carbon dioxide than previously believed An aerial view of the 38-acre experimental forest in Wisconsin where U-M researchers and their colleagues continuously exposed birch, aspen and maple … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration | Tagged , , | 116 Comments

Guardian: UK carbon capture project close to collapse

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

Another billion plus down the drain. I guess it wasn’t “sustainable”.

Posted in carbon sequestration, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , | 82 Comments

Edible Carbon Dioxide Sponge

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

This gives whole new meaning to the term “spongeworthy”. From Northwestern University News: EVANSTON, Ill. — A year ago Northwestern University chemists published their recipe for a new class of nanostructures made of sugar, salt and alcohol. Now, the same … Continue reading →

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Forests: Damned if they do, damned if they don’t

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

From the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil A new study shows that as climate change enhances tree growth in tropical forests, the resulting increase in litterfall could stimulate soil micro-organisms … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration | 85 Comments

The Big Sky “drill baby drill” project – just another dry hole into which taxpayer money is sequestered

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

From Montana State University, news of a big drilling project, except this one produces nothing. MSU moves forward with U.S. Department of Energy backed carbon dioxide storage project in northern Montana Montana State University finalized negotiations with the U.S. Department … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration | 92 Comments

Law of unintended carbon consequences

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

From Oregon State University Northwest Forest Plan has unintended benefit – carbon sequestration CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Northwest Forest Plan enacted in 1993 was designed to conserve old-growth forests and protect species such as the northern spotted owl, but researchers … Continue reading →

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High Costs Bury AEP’s Carbon Burial Plan

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

Story submitted by Hugh McCullough American Electric Power has scuttled its pilot project to bury CO2 from its Mountaineer coal-burning plant in Red Haven WVa. The original projected cost, before unanticipated overruns, was $668 million. About 1/3 of the gross … Continue reading →

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Trees: sucking up the carbon

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

Higher density means world forests are capturing more carbon Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, U.S. and European researchers say in a new report. In Europe and North America, increased density significantly raised … Continue reading →

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Warmer temperatures stimulate the gain of carbon stored in trees

Posted on May 28, 2011 by

Global Warming May Affect the Capacity of Trees to Store Carbon, MBL Study Finds WOODS HOLE, MA—One helpful action anyone can take in response to global warming is to plant trees and preserve forests. Trees and plants capture carbon dioxide … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, Obvious science, Science | 79 Comments

Comments on the American Physical Society Report on Direct Air Capture of CO2

Posted on May 13, 2011 by

I try to give equal access to those who want to comment professionally on reports here, here is one such example. This is commentary on the WUWT story Princeton: Direct removal of carbon dioxide from air likely not viable – Anthony … Continue reading →

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Princeton: Direct removal of carbon dioxide from air likely not viable

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

From the Princeton news website By Steven Schultz Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are unlikely to offer an economically feasible way to slow human-driven climate change for several decades, according to a report issued by the American … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration | Tagged , | 91 Comments

Forget CO2, US Debt “Causes” Warming

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

Guest Posting by Ira Glickstein Total US Debt (public and private) as a percentage of US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) correlates with NASA GISS US Annual Mean Temperature Anomaly better than CO2 levels! So, if we want to reduce warming, … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, NASA GISS | Tagged , | 91 Comments

Breakthough solution for power plants – pump the CO2 into the sea…oh, wait

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

From the EPA might have something to say about that department…this press release from LNL suggests dumping tons of Calcium Bicarbonate as a byproduct of CO2 scrubbing into the oceans instead. Only one teeny little problem – most coal fired … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, ridiculae | Tagged , , , , , | 112 Comments

CO2 sequestration ‘splodes in Saskatchewan

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

From the “nobody could convince them it was a bad idea in the first place” department… UPDATE: More details now emerging – see below the read more line The Canadian Press – ONLINE EDITION Carbon injected underground now leaking, Saskatchewan … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, satire | Tagged , , , , | 188 Comments

CO2 is Plant Food (Clean Coal, Say WATT?)

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. When Lord Monckton told Congress “CO2 is plant food”, the Global Warming activists went crazy because … well, because they know he spoke an inconvenient truth. Monckton’s statement was ridiculed in many blog posts and … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, energy, Environment, solar, Technology | Tagged , | 110 Comments

Study: CO2 sequestration may contaminate groundwater

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

From the “MTBE is perfectly safe department” and Duke University: Leaking underground CO2 storage could contaminate drinking water DURHAM, N.C. — Leaks from carbon dioxide injected deep underground to help fight climate change could bubble up into drinking water aquifers … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration | 107 Comments

Climate mitigation built on eggshells

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

No word in yet from the Easter Bunny… Scrambling for climate change solutions Eggshell membrane can absorb 7 times its weight in carbon dioxide The food industry generates a lot of waste products, but one of these, eggshells, could help … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, Climate News | 74 Comments

Antarctic Ocean: The Big Kahuna of glacial period carbon sinks

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

UF research gives clues about carbon dioxide patterns at end of Ice Age GAINESVILLE, Fla. — New University of Florida research puts to rest the mystery of where old carbon was stored during the last glacial period. It turns out … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, paleoclimatology | 108 Comments

Low-tech garbage heap makes for simplest carbon sequestration

Posted on September 20, 2010 by

From the Washington Post By Hugh Price In New Haven, W.Va., the Mountaineer Power Plant is using a complicated chemical process to capture about 1.5 percent of the carbon dioxide it produces. The gas is cooled to a liquid at … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration | 72 Comments

Quote of the Week #36 – Carbon sequestration’s fatal flaw

Posted on June 27, 2010 by

This is a parody gone mad. Green advocates howl about the issues of nuclear waste storage, arguing that nuclear energy becomes impractical due to the need for long term safe storage, in some cases tens of thousands to millions of … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, Quote of the Week | 162 Comments

The Union of Concerned Scientists tackles gardening to save the planet

Posted on May 10, 2010 by

From a press release from the Union of Concerned Scientists, we learn that you don’t need to worry anymore about global warming, we can just garden our way to carbon nirvana, that is, if the bugs don’t eat it. -Anthony … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, Land use land cover change, ridiculae | 184 Comments