Join us for Climate Restoration Using Natural Processes, an event on Tue, June 10, 2025 at 7pm at SEMI, 567 Yosemite Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035. (Also available via Zoom - see https://californiaconsultants.org/event/climate-restoration-using-natural-processes/)
We'll have free quality pizza and drinks starting at 6:30pm. Come early and network with our members, other engineers, interested parties, and possible consulting clients.
Achieving zero net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) is not enough to restore the climate. It is important that we also reduce the current atmospheric CO2 level of 420 ppm to the historically-safe pre-industrial level of below 300 ppm. The most practical way to achieve this goal appears to be the use of ocean iron fertilization to stimulate phytoplankton uptake of carbon dioxide in strategic locations.
In this talk, David Snyder will discuss this method, which is based on data from natural processes including hundreds of thousands of years of climate data, and observations from the 1991 Pinatubo and 2022 Tonga volcanic eruptions. He will also describe a pilot project conducted with modern measurement, reporting, and verification technologies, including instrument buoys and satellites, which will help to confirm the approach and refine its methodology.
