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Somebody in this room is going to save the world
If Ocean Visions doesn’t give you hope, I don’t know what will
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Our climate funding priorities are totally crazy and weird
Why the most effective, least expensive climate policies keep getting nickel-and-dimed
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Fertilizing the ocean does two things, both of them good
Restoring ocean ecosystems and removing carbon dioxide are two sides of the same coin.
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So how much carbon can we stash in the ocean, really?
Why ocean photosynthesis is like baking a cake
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The reason you've never heard of Ocean Fertilization
A sordid tale of environmental organizations going balls-to-the-wall to stop one of our most promising tools against climate change
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Seaweed makes its own clouds
It sounds like nonsense, but it’s biochemistry.
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Everything you wanted to know about whale poo, but were afraid to ask
Whales fertilized ocean ecosystems, until we hunted them to near-extinction
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February 2025

January 2025

Climate change is about thermodynamics, not ethics
Why people from poor countries have an easier time seeing this
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The trouble with stratospheric brightening
The existence of a thermostat implies a fight over who controls it
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The Levelized Cost of Horseshit
Taking apart the one statistic that muddles every energy debate
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How Green consensus gave rise to this
Expensive, unreliable energy is always going to be a vote-loser
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