Build economies around carbon removal, and investing in climate interventions like sunlight reflection to buy time.

Iceland has the 5th highest GDP per capita in the world. We’re about to witness what rich countries do when confronted by a changing climate.

A tree eats about twenty kilograms of carbon dioxide per year. But burning a tree releases about 100 times that amount of carbon dioxide. So if just 1% of a forest burns for any reason, that reverses the rest. And if it’s more than that, then the forest is emitting more carbon than it absorbs.

I just got back from the Millennium Seed Bank in the UK and was marveling at the size of a small footprint facility that stores samples of more than 10% of all known living plants.

Reading this thread, I was curious about what the size of California's sample collection looks like. I made an estimate using a little 1ul vial and an estimated 40 million people born in California since 1930. 100 samples in each box means 400,000 boxes. It's something like a 60 foot by 60 foot room with shelving.

If you extended it to a bank of 100 billion (about all humans ever born), that gets you to a pretty low tech solution that stores samples in the footprint of five Costcos.

California has been storing the samples in its biobank since 1983 not 1930.

Hey, from the demo video, I thought it was entering the answers to your pre-entered questions based on the transcript, but it looks like you're just typing in the answers. Is that right?

It literally says close the facility in the budget.

It's a little shed on top of the mountain. Here's a picture: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/mauna-loa-...

It's an atmospheric monitoring station and a solar telescope. I've been there. it's basically a shipping container full of sensors and computers and two people huddled there keeping it running.

The big telescopes are on Mauna Kea.

Seconded. The facility on Mauna Loa is the Mauna Loa Observatory which is atmospheric sensors and a solar telescope. The famous telescopes are on Mauna Kea (source: I grew up in Hawaii and worked for one of the telescopes, CFHT)

Catching up here. I visited there as part of building The State of Carbon website (https://carbon.datahub.io/). This was much upvoted project on HackerNews back when it was first created: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16332595

Totally bogus. First off, it’s a critical dataset for tracking CO2 levels. And second, it’s just like two people huddling in a metal shipping container with a bunch of sensors on top of a mountain in Hawaii, not some kind of crazy budget.

The current best in class methodology for biochar aims for 100+ years. There are some folks saying there are pathways to make biochar last 1000+ years.

Puro methodology: https://biochar.groups.io/g/main/attachment/32853/2/Puro.ear...

The nice thing is biochar is relatively inert. It just sits there in soil, holding onto water, making space for organisms to grow, but isn't "food", so it doesn't get eaten up and turned back into carbon dioxide. So it's a win for farmers and carbon removal.