"During the Paris climate summit late last year, European policy analyst Oliver Geden’s New York Times op-ed “The dubious carbon budget” warned that “we’re on the verge of repeating the same mistake that led to the financial crisis: relying on economic models that are completely detached from what’s going on in the real world.” With “magical thinking” and “questionable accounting,” Geden charged, climate scientists and economists are “betting primarily” on an unproven solution: BECCS, or bioenergy with carbon capture and storage."

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"Steve Atkins, wearing khakis and a tucked button-down blue shirt, squints closely at a primitive unit set up on the roof of a research building on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe. The unit is about the size of a telephone booth. Two filters made of a resin material are placed above a see-through tank holding about 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide."

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Media responses to COP21 and climate engineering opportunities; contributions that include CE in the climate policy portfolio after the Paris climate talks. (see 'read more')

"The promise of geoengineering is placing average global temperatur under human control, and is thus considered a powerful instrument for the internatinoal community to deal with global warming."

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