There are a lot of things I agree with in Bill Gates' new climate memo, but I think it sets up a false dichotomy between reducing emissions and helping the world's poorest. I've put together a piece with my thoughts over at TCB:

🔖 🌳 🌎 🌐 🇧🇷 Great YSE News article on a recent YCNCC-funded workshop convened by YSE Associate Professor Paulo Brando to connect ancestral Xingu Indigenous knowledge with scientific methods to monitor and protect the health of threatened Amazon ecosystems. 1/3 environment.yale.edu/news/article...

📢 🏆 🌊 🧮 Very pleased to share that a @yalecncc.bsky.social research team led by Yale EPS Assistant Professor Elizabeth Yankovsky and Research Scientist Luke Gloege have won a $1.9M Phase II Award from the @bezosearthfund.org AI Grand Challenge. Details here - www.linkedin.com/posts/ycncc_...

📢📢📢 The application window is now open for YCNCC's Fall 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship call. Details and application via the below link. We will start reviewing applications after 12/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/opportunitie...

🌊🌊🌊 A big thank you to Jim Shelton and Yale News for this great Q&A feature with @yalecncc.bsky.social mCDR Lead Gabby Kitch, PhD and our new Blue Carbon OAE project. news.yale.edu/2025/09/04/b...

📢📢📢 The Yale Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences has opened a search for YCNCC Faculty and Asst/Assoc/Professor with a focus on marine and other geochemical CDR. 🌊🌊🌊 🪨🪨🪨 Details via the below link. Candidate review begins 10/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/about/opport...

Safe passage to Chris Doyle (1959-2025). This is my kind of public art.

"Humanity is revealed in the trying." Chris Doyle, quoted in Penelope Green's captivating obituary of the artist. What a wonderfully creative life.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/arts/chris-doyle-dead.html

📢 🗓️ 🌊 Please register via the link below for the @sabincenter.bsky.social mCDR Law & Policy Symposium 19 Sept in NYC, Seattle, Victoria B.C., and Newark DE. New @yalecncc.bsky.social mCDR Lead Gabby Kitch will be moderating an all⭐ panel on the State of mCDR Science www.linkedin.com/posts/ycncc_...

📢 🪨 🚜 🌊 📈 Peer-reviewed Comment in @natwater.nature.com from @yalecncc.bsky.social scientists on how aglime (CaCO3) can drive low-cost scalable CDR that delivers significant agronomic benefit to farmers. Comment: www.nature.com/articles/s44... YSE News: environment.yale.edu/news/article...

While the loss from U.S. federal service of so many brilliant scientists + other talented climate professionals has been maddening to witness, we at Yale are pleased + lucky to have Gabby join us to lead mCDR initiatives. Thank you to Builders Initiative for the support 🙏🙏🙏

📈📈📈 Big congratulations to the @yalecncc.bsky.social research team led by Elizabeth Yankovsky, Luke Gloege, Noah Planavsky on their Phase 1 award from the @bezosearthfund.org AI Grand Challenge for Nature and Climate. www.bezosearthfund.org/news-and-ins...

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Great to see today's announcement of a JP Morgan debt facility, backed by The Schmidt Family Foundation, for Mati Carbon to advance the deployment of enhanced weathering with smallholder farmers in the Global South. High-leverage + super-catalytic philanthropy 👏👏👏 www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

📢📢📢 Recaps below of last week's @yalecncc.bsky.social Spring Symposium + Yale Climate Day on "AI for Natural Climate Solutions." Thank you to the excellent speakers, attendees, and to YIBS and AI at Yale for their partnership 🙏 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🗓️🗓️🗓️ Looking forward to this year's @yalecncc.bsky.social's 2025 Spring Symposium this Thurs-Fri 8-9 May focused on "AI for Natural Climate Solutions." Information on the program, speakers, and registration here -- www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Today we mourn the loss of one of our founders, Barry Benepe, and we celebrate his legacy: "In 1966, he helped organize a protest to close Central Park to automobile traffic on Sundays in the summer." 52 years later, the park went car-free every day, all year long.

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🏆🏆🏆 Huge congratulations to Mati for winning the $50M @xprize.org. Mati partners with smallholder farmers in the Global South to deliver durable CDR with significant agronomic cobenefits via an enhanced weathering approach based in part on @yalecncc.bsky.social research news.yale.edu/2025/04/23/y...

🗓️🌊👇 Looking forward to @yalecncc.bsky.social Scientific Leadership Team member Elizabeth Yankovsky's YSE #BIOMES talk on "Challenges & Applications of Ocean Modeling" 12p ET 4/16 in-person or via zoom. Register via the link below to join! yaleconnect.yale.edu/biomes/rsvp_...

🗓️⏰🪨🚜🌧️🌊12p ET today! Still time to register via the link 👇

The reported plan by the Trump Administration to end climate research at NOAA is disturbing and would have massive repercussions to the vital research we rely on for human and climate health. “It wouldn’t just gut it. It would shut it down.” www.science.org/content/arti...

📢📢📢 Thrilled to share the news that YSE Professor Peter Raymond has been appointed to succeed Liza Comita as Co-Director of @yalecncc.bsky.social starting July 1st. Congratulations to Pete and a *big* thank you to Liza for her tireless service to YCNCC naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/news/pete-ra...

🗓️ ✈️ Excited to welcome @yalecncc.bsky.social's Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar @hausfath.bsky.social (Yale MEM 2008) 3/27-28. As part of the visit, Zeke will present on the need for durable CDR, and associated moral hazard, 12p ET Thurs 3/27. Register here: yaleconnect.yale.edu/ycncc/rsvp_b...

📺 ❤️ 🌊 ⚡ #ThisIsCDR Ep06 with Matthew Eisaman youtu.be/950SLzuAuCo?...

What a loss, Matt has been such an unselfish, intellectually leading and inspiring person. His contribution to our OAE research best practices guide is a fine example of his services to the mCDR community and to society as a whole: sp.copernicus.org/articles/2-o...

🔖🪨🚜🌧️🌊 Fantastic report from Remineralize the Earth on @yalecncc.bsky.social's watershed-scale enhanced weathering field trial in Vermont's Sleepers River Research Watershed. Many thanks to James Jerden and Joanna Campe from Remineralize for the visit!!! www.remineralize.org/2025/02/yale...

🔖🪨🚜🌧️🌊 Excited to share this Enhanced Weathering Research Update that details the important work on #EW happening at @yalecncc.bsky.social, led by Yale PIs Planavsky, Raymond, and Saiers and supported by dozens of researchers in their labs. naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

📺🍿🪨🚜🌧️🌊 Great video of @yalecncc.bsky.social's enhanced weathering field trial in Southside VA, featuring star turns from Adam Wilbourne + YCNCC researcher @ellamilliken.bsky.social. 🙏 again to @newscientist.com's @jamesdinneen.bsky.social for the visit!👏👏👏https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYe-Z5PrB3E

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🎧🪨🚜🌧️🌊 Great report in this @newscientist.com pod (min ~22) from @yalecncc.bsky.social's watershed-scale enhanced weathering field trial in Southside VA led by YCNCC researcher @ellamilliken.bsky.social. Many thanks to @jamesdinneen.bsky.social for the visit! www.newscientist.com/podcasts/#:~....

"Finally, we emphasize that efforts to remove atmospheric carbon by means of any CDR technology will ultimately be futile for addressing the climate crisis without urgent and drastic emissions reductions and a transition to clean energy." 🧪

This Lowcountry South Carolina live cam features a recently hatched baby bald eagle! www.hhilandtrust.org/eagle-cam

📢🪨🚜🌧️🌊 @yalecncc.bsky.social Scientific Leadership Team member Dr. Noah Planavsky co-authored this important new paper in @springernature.com on "Transforming US agriculture for carbon removal with enhanced weathering." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 🪵 🔥 Important research authored by CCL's Jake Barker and Sinead Crotty + Kodama's Jimmy Voorhis on the *high* direct cost of pile-burning forest residues in the western U.S. ($55-86 per MT CO2e) *plus* significant detrimental effect on air quality www.frontiersin.org/journals/for...

🪨🚜🌧️🌊 Still time to register for Yale's Spring 2025 online seminar series on enhanced weathering. First lecture 12p ET today with Dr. David J Beerling followed on Monday 1/27 12p ET by @yalecncc.bsky.social CC's own Dr. Noah Planavsky. Zoom registration here -- yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Its pretty stark just how much warmer 2023 and 2024 were globally than any prior year on record. For more details, see our Berkeley Earth global temperature report here: berkeleyearth.org/gl...

🔖🐟🌏 Yale EPS + @uconn.bsky.social Today write-ups on @yalecncc.bsky.social scientist Dr. Noah Planavsky and former YCNCC researcher Dr. Mojtaba Fakhraee's Nov 2024 @springernature.bsky.social Food article on "enhanced sulfide burial" in fish farms for durable CDR earth.yale.edu/news/researc...

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Another exciting year for enhanced rock weathering science. The number of pre-prints and other non-peer reviewed articles (blog posts, dissertations, etc.) is growing quickly, too. #ERW #CDR

Very cool effort to figure out how/whether congestion pricing is cutting down Manhattan traffic, in real time: www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com

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I think the most often mistake hardtech startups make is trying to do several things well before they prove they can do one thing well.

Baby’s first AGU 👏👏👏 agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

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This is the key to CDR today, I'm delighted to see Google embrace it: "With this partnership, we’re enabling Terradot to scientifically prove and operationally scale their approach" We simply don't know enough about CDR to embrace or condemn it - and we won't until we put money into finding out.

When we talk about “misinformation” I don’t think we acknowledge that even prime publications like the Guardian play fast and loose with “the truth”. The advisory board didn’t talk about a ban but a moratorium AND said more research should be done (and even outdoor tests, if small, cld be included)

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