Project Monarch Gets Under Way in LA
July 2, 2024 edition.
It’s a short newsletter this week, but a good one.
In Los Angeles County, multiple projects are getting under way to remove carbon dioxide from the air, including so-called Project Monarch. Monarch will turn brine into clean water while simultaneously removing carbon dioxide from the air. If the demonstration project is a success, a larger facility will follow.
A shocking 64% of carbon removal scientists are concerned or extremely concerned that progress with carbon removal could slow down efforts to reduce emissions. That’s striking because this group mostly consists of people whose careers are dedicated to carbon removal.
The poll was taken last week at the third international conference on negative CO2 emissions in Oxford. It highlights the moral hazard implicit in the development of geoengineering, as well. See Carbon Brief’s excellent coverage of the event here.
Is solar geoengineering ethical? How would it work? Those are the topics of this panel from Harvard's Climate Engineering Week. It has just gone up on Youtube.
Have a Drink with New Friends in DC
Join the Planetary Sunshade Foundation for a social event in Washington, DC on July 18. The group is dedicated to researching whether a sunshade in space could cast a diffuse shadow over the globe. RSVP here.