Bending the Curve Towards a Future
Frustrated by impossible promises? Climate Response invites you to join (start) our team of No Bullshit Artists who use the laws of physics to demonstrate (against) overhyped technology and miracle cures. Examine claims discovered in the wild and share your thinking in a Crowdsourced, Peer-to-Peer, somewhat snarky scientific review process we are calling Bullshit Detection as a Service. If it defies Newton, thermodynamics, or common sense, you can dismantle it here.
Cross-Browser Google Doc Scratchpad – Optimized for Chrome & Safari 1. The Universal Backend (Code.gs) This code lives in your Google Apps Script project. It handles the logic of finding today’s note, appending the text in a monospaced code block, and redirecting you to the document. JavaScript 2. Browser Bookmarklets Replace YOUR_WEB_APP_URL in the snippets below with your deployed … Read more
Santa Claus – A Global Logistics & Surveillance Capitalism A centralized, high-speed global distribution system for consumer goods, powered by ruminant bio-propulsion and supported by a ubiquitous behavioral surveillance grid. He collects biometric and behavioral data (‘sleeping’, ‘awake’, ‘bad’, ‘good’) on 2 billion future consumers. The ‘Toy’ delivery is a loss leader for the data. … Read more
Mati Carbon uses Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) in tropical agriculture. They spread crushed basalt on fields; the heat, humidity, and root activity dissolve the rock, reacting with CO₂ to form stable bicarbonates that wash into the ocean. The chemistry is text-book. The challenge is “MRV” (Measurement, Reporting, Verification) in messy, open systems like flooded rice … Read more
ADM’s Carbon Capture Scam – Sticking a Cork in a Fermentation Tank Welcome to the premier of the Climate Response Bullshit Detection as a Service bot. We discuss ADM’s taxpayer-funded science experiment that worked great until the steel pipes started dissolving in 2024. It proves that ‘forever’ storage is a nice marketing slogan but a … Read more
If you’ve ever looked at a standard carbon capture plant, you know they usually look like a chemical refinery designed by a brutalist architect—miles of pipes, fans, and gray steel. SpiralWave decided to go a different route. They built a glowing, pulsing, sci-fi totem pole that looks like it should be powering a starship in … Read more
The green revolution has no shortage of slick sales pitches promising solutions to climate change and breakthroughs that will slash carbon emissions to zero or sequester a gigaton of carbon every year. If someone is selling an idea that seems too good to be true without providing an analysis of the energy requirements, it might … Read more
Is a climate solution technology investment worthy? While many proposed hard tech climate solutions are steaming piles of crap before they even get to the starting gate, we cannot address climate change without investment in the most promising technologies. Instinct, market studies, vaporware, and founder provenance may be enough to justify an investor’s decisions when … Read more
Applying Systems Thinking When Deciding Which of the Demonstrated Solutions to Implement Now The Climate Crisis is here. Carbon dioxide emitted today will contribute to the greenhouse effect for about a thousand years. The effect of greenhouse gasses is cumulative, not transient. The sooner we reduce emissions/the more we reduce emissions, the more we reduce … Read more
Thermodynamic Due Diligence: The Essential Litmus Test Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Thermodynamic due diligence isn’t just “nice-to-have” in climate tech—it’s an uncompromising, non-negotiable first step in evaluating any proposed solution. In a world where every (kilowatt) hour counts and with financial and policy support is in danger, the margin for error is zero. … Read more