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April 2025

How we beat the climate crisis by 2075
Five stylized pathways to a stable climate
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Lies, Damn Lies, and “Climate Solutions”
A little rant on the most abused phrase in the climate world
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The case for warm water ocean fertilization
Why gigaton-scale carbon sequestration may work better in the tropics
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Quico Toro
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The ocean fertilization experiment nobody can control
Tonga Kermadec doesn't care what you think about what he's doing.
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A Steam Engine for the Ocean
What if carbon credits are just fundamentally the wrong way to fund carbon removal?
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March 2025

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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