Archive - One Percent Brighter

Picture three trillion tons of stuff

Why almost none of the climate debate is actually about the climate

Jul 9 •

June 2025

The Trouble with Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement

The trendiest marine Carbon Dioxide Removal method just won't scale

Jun 27 •

No, Africa can't just stop cooking

How the clean cookstoves debate reduces first world climate extremism ad absurdum

Jun 24 •

The antidote to climate anxiety

We need to stop offering kids pint-sized solutions to tanker-sized problems

Jun 23 •

Harm reduction for the planet

What the war on drugs can teach us about fighting climate change

Jun 12 •

May 2025

Why the Climeworks debacle doesn’t interest me

It would take a superhuman feat of physics-defying genius for DAC to go from totally irrelevant to, well, still total irrelevance.

May 19 •

What if carbon removal was priced by how long it lasts?

The promise and the peril of Ton-Year Accounting

May 16 •

A tale of five gyres

Four of Earth’s five warm ocean gyres are marine deserts. The fifth shows what the other four could be.

May 12 •

Yes, climate is a crisis. No, not for you.

How climate narcissism leads the green movement down a blind alley

May 9 •

Truth and the price of carbon

Dissecting the most confused number in climate

May 7 •

April 2025

How we beat the climate crisis by 2075

Five stylized pathways to a stable climate

Apr 22 •

Lies, Damn Lies, and “Climate Solutions”

A little rant on the most abused phrase in the climate world

Apr 14 •

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