@blkahn

Your friendly local @WIRED science editor. Formerly @climate, @protocol, @gizmodo

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Ari Natter@AriNatter10 Aug 2023
NEW: The Biden administration is set to announce the winners of the first-round of funding for technology that fights climate change by sucking carbon from the air. Projects by Occidental and Climeworks are said to be front-runners. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 🔓w/ @blkahn

Biden Bets Billions on Tech That Sucks Carbon Out of the Air

Direct air capture plants proposed by Occidental and Climeworks will receive as much as $1.2 billion in US funding to fight climate change.

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Postcards from the anthropocene washingtonpost.com/news/capi…
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New postcard from the anthropocene (h/t @KellyHereid) xitter.cf/marioarizabaez/status/…
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Some personal news: I am over at The Other Place now too
A screenshot of my bluesky profile @blkahn.bsky.social 🥲

ALT A screenshot of my bluesky profile @blkahn.bsky.social 🥲

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Thread 🧵1) With monsoon season fast approaching, #Pakistan has already seen heavy rains and strong winds resulting in dozens of fatalities. This year, though, the rain is falling on a country still reeling. bloomberg.com/news/features/… w @FaseehMangi

A $30 Billion Disaster Is Just the Tip of a Deadly Climate Cycle

Pakistan’s record flooding last year displaced millions and left the country reeling. As a new monsoon season approaches, recovery efforts are floundering.

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📢Also, calling all Los Angeles-based climate tech founders, researchers, investors and policy people! I just made a cross-country move and am looking to get acquainted with the climate tech community here, so please DM me if you're LA-based and down for a coffee chat.
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Excited to share the cover of my first book. It lays out a framework for scaling climate solutions through success stories from around the world. 🚨 If you pre-order, send the receipt and an address ([email protected]), I'll mail a signed bookplate bit.ly/climate-capitalism
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Forest carbon offsets are a risky bet, part 1390741238 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Canada’s Explosive Wildfires Have Damaged a Forest Carbon Offset Project

The unusually early and intense wildfire season is impacting a popular but controversial tool used to fight climate change: carbon offsets.

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Canada's wildfire season has already emitted millions of tons of carbon dioxide. Some of that has come from a forest offset project that burned earlier this month (it almost certainly won't be the last) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Canada’s Explosive Wildfires Have Damaged a Forest Carbon Offset Project

The unusually early and intense wildfire season is impacting a popular but controversial tool used to fight climate change: carbon offsets.

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Brian Kahn retweeted
Emily Atkin@emorwee26 Jun 2023
FYI, this story contains ZERO on-record comment from NYC pizzeria owners who say climate rules would harm them or affect quality of pizza. The only source who says that is an anonymous "pizza restaurateur," who gave no reason for anonymity nypost.com/2023/06/25/nyc-ru…

Exclusive | Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal-, wood-fired pizzerias -- must cut carbon...

New York City is even targeting beloved pizza pie in a bid to curb carbon pollutants -- drafting new rules that would require pizzerias that use coal and wood burning ovens for decades to curb...

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The Loan Programs Office from US govt 2010: $465 million to Tesla 2023: $9200 million to Ford That's 20x. bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…

Ford Gets $9.2 Billion to Help US Catch Up With China’s EV Dominance

It’s one of the biggest loans to a US carmaker in more than a decade – and a watershed moment in Biden’s $400 billion plan to go all in on green technologies.

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if net zero were put to a popular vote? One, you are such a nerd. And two, we're about to find out this weekend bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Swiss Citizens Prepare for Rare Vote on Net-Zero Climate Law

Dozen of countries have enacted climate targets through legislation, but the question is rarely put to ordinary people for a vote.

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Direct air capture could become a trillion-dollar industry, but only if startups and their backers figure out how to grow up By @blkahn trib.al/ItdsWr4

Removing Carbon From the Air Enters Its Awkward Teen Years

Direct air capture could become a trillion-dollar industry, but only if startups and their backers figure out how to grow up.

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Brian was extraordinarily polite about me accidentally texting him my itinerary updates and, much more importantly, had really interesting and deep questions about the future of carbon removal.
Brian Kahn@blkahn12 Jun 2023
Oh hey it's my first @climate byline. I spent last week hanging out with the world's biggest carbon removal stans. This is what I learned bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Removing Carbon From the Air Enters Its Awkward Teen Years

Direct air capture could become a trillion-dollar industry, but only if startups and their backers figure out how to grow up.

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Oh hey it's my first @climate byline. I spent last week hanging out with the world's biggest carbon removal stans. This is what I learned bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Removing Carbon From the Air Enters Its Awkward Teen Years

Direct air capture could become a trillion-dollar industry, but only if startups and their backers figure out how to grow up.

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We're entering the awkward teen years of removing carbon from the air. The technology itself doesn't necessarily need training wheels anymore. But it does need *a lot* of support and things to go right for it to mature to the scale needed...
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Ultimately, CDR could become a productive member of climate change-fighting society. Or, despite the best efforts of everyone around it, it could end up being a slacker getting high on its parents couch (but with much higher stakes)
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Uhhhhhh... "A flight from Paris to New York powered solely by waste biofuels such as animal fats requires some 8,800 dead pigs" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Pig-Fat Fueled Flights Risk Creating Surge in Palm-Oil Output

Europe’s airlines are quickly tying up the supply of available animal fats to produce biofuels, creating unintended ecological knock-on hazards that include a surge in palm-oil production, according...

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There's *a lot* running on carbon removal success - a massive amount of removal has been 'pre-purchased' by a range of customers, and a relatively small amount has been actually captured. Data via the good people at @cdr_fyi docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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Can't stop singing "baby nuke" like it's "baby shark," someone please help me bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Pentagon Is Helping Bring the Next Generation of Nuclear Technology to Life

The first small modular reactor commissioned by the Defense Department could roll off the assembly line of a Virginia-based factory in just two years.

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This is my final request that you read my many-months-long investigation into the far-right militias masquerading as emergency preparedness/relief orgs and why that doesn't bode well for a future plagued by super-charged natural disasters. #EMGTwitter grist.org/extreme-weather/bo…

When disaster strikes, far-right groups see an opportunity to gain trust

Anti-government organizations are filling a disaster-response gap — and using it to spread their message.

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