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Vast Majority of Global CO2 Emissions Tied to Just 57 Entities

DeSmogBlog

That changed in 2013, when Richard Heede, cofounder of the Climate Accountability Institute, first launched the Carbon Majors database, a project that had required years of number crunching. Years of Number Crunching Findings like these weren’t always so readily available.

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The answer to climate-killing cow farts may come from the sea

Grist

It can reverse ocean acidification by absorbing carbon dioxide. We’d have to grow quite a bit of seaweed to rely on it for sequestration: One study suggests we could remove the equivalent of 42 percent of all current global CO2 emissions by covering 4 percent of the world’s oceans in seaweed farms — but that’s a lot of ocean.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

Solar geoengineering, for example, does nothing to ameliorate ocean acidification, which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The potential effects of solar radiation management are so large and wide-ranging as to implicate almost every aspect of life on the planet.