The acceptance of carbon dioxide removal kicked off in 2018 with the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C Warming. (This message is also on LinkedIn and YouTube)

In that report, every model for stabilizing the climate at 1.5 degrees of warming required billions of tons of carbon dioxide removal.

That IPCC report is what unleashed investment, research and development, policymakers, customers, innovators, a whole movement of people committed to stabilizing the climate by scaling carbon dioxide removal rapidly.

Now, I want to point you to the next wave that's coming.

It's the IPCC's big upcoming report, the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). In it, the IPCC is taking on solar radiation modification for the first time. It's part of an entire chapter on temperature stabilization for the planet (Chapter 9 "Earth system responses under pathways towards temperature stabilization, including overshoot pathways").

Imagine this report comes back and says that we need large-scale solar radiation management quickly, in the same way that the 2018 report pointed the need for carbon dioxide removal. You'd see a rush of people working on this investing in this, making policies for this. This might be the next wave in our work on stabilizing the climate.

If you want to get ahead of the wave, come join the #SRM channel on AirMiners Slack. We're talking about data and science around solar radiation management.

The first major public discussion about climate stabilization is happening at Stabilize Earth next week in San Francisco. I'll be speaking. Come join!

Tito

P.S. update on Microsoft - it seems Microsoft is indeed pausing its purchases. Will send a note about that next.