Reposted by Giulia Faucher
This new tool, the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon emissions into real-world climate impacts like heat exposure and coral bleaching, looks super useful.
➡️ carbonimpactstracer.com
theguardian.com
New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused
Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production
![But not all are convinced that private companies are the best route to scaling mCDR. David Ho, a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was part of early mCDR research efforts both within and beyond academia. Ho is an established researcher in ocean science key to the veracity of the field, but he also co-founded a non-profit organisation in 2023 to build software that supports mCDR research.
Ho thinks that the field should be a government-funded or government-run research effort, not driven by companies via venture capital and private funding.
"There's so much that we need to figure out that companies are not going to do. They are there to work on their [own, specific] technology," he said.
Ho pointed to areas of research essential to scaling mCDR - in the realms of environment, geophysics, governance, and social studies - that companies are not necessarily prioritising.
"They're not thinking about that. It's 'How do you develop intellectual property that you can maybe sell to a fossil fuel company?' I bet every single one of them looks at the exit that Carbon Engineering took and says 'Well, we too would like to get $1 bln.' And that's the best exit for any of them right now, because they will never be paid billions of dollars to remove carbon."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:77lswp42lgjyw36ozuo7kt7e/bafkreihn7uxd7cprm736cwqmyvzweapzas6ezy6vmm5vjo74osu5bcpaau)
