Occidental Chemicals CO2 air capture unit in the Permian Basin about to begin operations. Climate Change Review 2025 – The Science of the Effects of Warming by Bruce Melton PE, first posted at the Rag Blog on December 31, 2025 Podcast – Rag Radio, KOOP Austin, January 2, 2026. The good news is real,…
(The most important carbon capture tax and cash pay incentive in the world has been upheld by the current U.S. administration and in some cases enhanced. Annually 61 million tons of CO2 are captured and safely stored, a drop in the bucket but Rome was not built in a day. The U.S. carbon capture incentive…
Telltale for the New IMO Ship’s Fuel Regulations Causing Significant Warming Since 2023: Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxide Emissions There has been a 67% reduction in ships’ cloud-altering abilities after the International Maritime Organization’s ship’s fuel regulations limiting sulfur went into effect. Sulfur is a natural component of fossil fuels that when burned creates air pollution responsible…
Stratos, 500 million ton per year air capture unit by Occidental Petroleum in the Permian Basin, Texas What’s next for carbon removal? Undue false and widespread pessimism in the popular press. Companies have still drawn down only enough CO2 to cancel out a few hours of US emissions. Here’s what it will take to really…
The Scenario Bias Understates Earth’s Captured Co2 Injection Capacity A review of the Associated Press story, Study: Less carbon storage capacity than thought, by Tammy Webber, based on Gidden et al., A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage, Nature, September 3, 2025. Associated Press, September 3, 2025 – “The world has far fewer places…
Findings since mid-May reveal new and more serious insight into tipping threshold crossing of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets, Antarctic sea ice, ocean acidification, and tropical and boreal forests. The 30 percent warming jump in 2023 and 2024 is crucial to understanding the extreme risks of our current and rapidly accelerating climate trajectory. But…
