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Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon dioxide has a PR problem! | Mark Osborne Carbon dioxide has a PR problem! Geek alert... Literally our problem with CO2 stems from the P & R branches of the 15 micron CO2 infrared (IR) absorption band. You only really understand the problem and...

Spectroscopy, quantum chemistry and the climate crisis collide...

Great insights on the origins and effects of the grreenhouse gas warming

It's a thing! | Mark Osborne It's a thing! #EarthOvershootDay For the rest of the year our demand for resources outstrips what the Earth can sustainably supply... That's everything, everyone of us use everyday, some more than…

It's a thing! | Mark Osborne

If the pH meter breaks... | Carbon Lock Solutions If the pH meter breaks... How to show CO2 drawdown with the CLock sorbent? Ask the kids... Got the youngest experimenting with a red cabbage indicator way back in the days of lockdown learning.…

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For #ShowYourStripes 2025 adding Ocean pH for the Celtic-Biscay Shelf (closest to Brighton as poss) along with the global ocean surface temperature change! | Carbon Lock Solutions For #ShowYourStripes 2025 adding Ocean pH for the Celtic-Biscay Shelf (closest to Brighton as poss) along with the global ocean surface temperature change! Putting the long carbon cycle to work,…

For #ShowYourStripes 2025 adding Ocean pH for the Celtic-Biscay Shelf (closest to Brighton as poss) along with the global ocean surface temperature change! | Carbon Lock Solutions www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Brighton Stripes for Show your Stripes Day 2025 | Mark Osborne Brighton Stripes for Show your Stripes Day 2025 Only part of a long story. We've adapted to long periods of colder climes, but rarely warmer and never with the many billions that starship Earth now…

Brighton Stripes for Show your Stripes Day 2025 | Mark Osborne

Before it ends... | Mark Osborne Before it ends... Apparently June 16th is Sussex Day... To add to the summer vibes that Sussex was very much giving today, a pic from the archive... The original Big Beach Boutique on Brighton…

Before it ends... | Mark Osborne

Happy World Ocean Day 2025! | Carbon Lock Solutions Happy World Ocean Day 2025! As well as celebrating the big beautiful biodiversity of our oceans... Here's some of the chemistry that makes the oceans the big beautiful buffer on which that…

Happy World Ocean Day 2025! | Carbon Lock Solutions

Just a reminder... | Mark Osborne Just a reminder... Putting the task of #climateaction, #decarbonisation and the #energytransition in perspective... In 2020 during the pandemic, CO2 emissions dropped by just 1.5 billion metric tons…

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How seawater can remove CO2 with solar power | Carbon Lock Solutions posted on the topic | LinkedIn CLock goes solar... Locking down CO2 from the ultimate sorbent, seawater from our beautiful Brighton coast. A few of our favourite things... Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Solar Chemistry Popping hydr...

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#climatechange #carbondioxide #globalwarming #deepdatadives | Mark Osborne Context is everything... data delivers! After another dive into historic Earth records... Yes, it's been a teeny bit warmer, once or twice since the start of our short, sapien history on Earth. ...

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CLock goes solar...

Locking down CO2 from the ultimate sorbent, seawater from our beautiful Brighton coast.

A few of our favourite things...
Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
Solar
Chemistry
Popping hydrogen
Campari Spritz

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Mark Osborne on LinkedIn: #carbon #emissions #reduction #energy #renewables #cdr #climate #solutions… Food, fuel and consumer fluff for thought here... Sadly we never turned the negative of lockdown in 2020 to a positive, with a reset and rethink of new paths…

Decarbonisation math!

No Net Zero without Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).

YoY emissions reductions, never reach zero by the compound annual deprecation, power-law.

Hard to abate industries will not fully decarbonise, so a net negative CDR offset is crucial!

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Mark Osborne on LinkedIn: #nature #positive #climate #solutions #simple #school #chemistry #diycdr Today the Guardian reports on the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) assessment of ocean acidification. https://lnkd.in/ezP2nqAD Ocean pH…

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The Carbon Lock Project on LinkedIn: #carbonnegative #festivefun Twas the night before... With warming in 2024 taking us passed the 1.5 oC Paris limit we can, for now, only be "dreaming of a white Christmas". But... Ho…

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The Carbon Lock Project on LinkedIn: From the outreach archive... Original samples of C60 and C70 fullerenes… From the outreach archive... Original samples of C60 and C70 fullerenes from the lab of Nobel Prize chemist, Sir Harry Kroto. A hexane extraction of the…

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The Carbon Lock Project moves into 2025 with a mesmerising minute of a Mexican wave murmuration over Brighton pier against the sublime sunset and seascape of a 2024 summer's evening!

#HappyNewYear #ClimateAction20Thrive

Climate Science 101 Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe explains the basics of climate change for beginners and those in need of a refresher.

An excellent primer on climate science by Dr. Katharine Hayhoe (@katharinehayhoe.com):

The Climate Brink 2024 wrap up Happy New Year to all our readers!

New on The Climate Brink: Our 2024 wrap up!

Zeke and I review the biggest climate stories of 2024 and make predictions for 2025.

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What’s happened this week in climate change?

DeBriefed | Cyclone Chido hits; Coal’s new peak; Africa’s energy transition

✍🏿 Written by @solomon.elusoji.carbonbrief.org
📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org

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A fun, festive feast for the eyes with a marvelous mind muddle of swivelling seasonal snowflakes.

Enjoy!

Schur genius!

Well, any cast from...
The Good Place
Brooklyn 99
The Office
... is a choice creative collective!

Festive Friday Fluorescence!

From the outreach archive and old laser lab...

Semiconductor quantum dots and perovskite nanocrystals.

And ho, ho, how did a G&T get in there?

Quinine in the tonic gives the "beautiful celestial blue", first observed by Herschel, 1845.

Enjoy your weekend tipple!

Together, we can – and must – stand up for science, effective climate action, and a better future This is a troubling time for people working on climate change.Despite the widespread, accelerating deployment of climate solutions around the world, events over the last few months are casting doubt o...

At Project Drawdown, we promise to always stand up for science, climate solutions, and the better future we work toward every day. Read more about our commitments to all of you and our beautiful planet in @globalecoguy.bsky.social's latest Insights post. 🌍👇

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Graph of the day!

Atmospheric CO2 for the last 800000 years (log timescale)!
And overlay of emissions since the industrial revolution. Scary, huh!

As homo sapiens, we've seen two ice ages with CO2 lows, but have never in our history experienced the warming at the CO2 levels we see today!

Tech Trajectories: Four More Moore’s Laws Semiconductor technologies aren’t the only ones that have gotten exponentially better

We now need equally disruptive tech in the energy and climate space for a sustainable future.

Release of the Solexa Genome analyzer in 2006 marked a turning point in the learning curve for DNA sequencing. The only modern tech to break Moore's Law!

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What have the double-pendulum and the Atlantic Meridonal Overturning Circulation have in common?

Both non-linear, coupled oscillating systems, one simple, the other uber complex. Yawn!

Both have tipping points, one inconsequential, the other could crash temperatures in Europe by -10 C. Wake up!