BERCshop : Closing the Carbon Cycle - Scaling Up Carbon Removal Solutions 18 Feb 2014

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BERCshop : Closing the Carbon Cycle - Scaling Up Carbon Removal Solutions 18 Feb 2014. Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept of Global Ecology Stanford University, Dept of Earth System Science kcaldeira@carnegiescience.edu. Archer et al., 2009. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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BERCshop: Closing the Carbon Cycle - Scaling Up Carbon Removal Solutions18 Feb 2014

Ken Caldeira

Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept of Global EcologyStanford University, Dept of Earth System Science

kcaldeira@carnegiescience.edu

Archer et al., 2009

CO2 stays in the atmosphere for a long time.

If we removed all excess CO2 from the atmosphere

today, that would offset only about half the warming

Cao et al 2011

US per capita CO2 emissions are about 50 kg/day~110 pounds/day

Energy system transitions aren’t easy

Caldeira et al., 2013

Carbon dioxide removal proposals

Caldeira et al., 2013

American average per capita CO2 production

about 50 kg CO2 / day

about 110 pounds CO2 / day

about twice level of EU, China

GOES East, 18 July 2013

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