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• CALGARY, AB, April 25, 2024 /CNW/ - The Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) and Carbon Alpha today announced plans to develop the North Star Project, a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) project near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan.
• The North Star Project represents added value to our existing facilities and focuses on the newest renewable prospects for our region, carbon dioxide removal.
• We, along with our partners Carbon Alpha, are completely aligned with the National and Provincial Growth Plans and this opportunity makes good sense.
• Once operational, North Star plans to generate about 70,000 CDR credits annually, which would be the largest CDR project in Canada.

• That was the story last week when more than a year’s worth of rain fell in a day on the Arabian Peninsula, one of the world’s driest regions.
• Desert cities like Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) suffered floods that submerged motorways and airport runways.

• Every Wednesday, The Conversation’s environment editor writes Imagine, a short email that goes a little deeper into just one climate issue.
• Richard Washington, a professor of climate science at the University of Oxford, has seen the inside of a storm.
• To confirm if cloud seeding really could breed record-breaking rain, he once boarded an aeroplane bound for a thundercloud over the South Africa-Mozambique border.

What caused the flood?

• But by flying a lot of missions, half with cloud seeding and half without, and measuring rainfall between the two, meteorologists eventually showed that cloud seeding did modify rain rates in some storms.
• That’s not what caused Dubai’s floods though.

• Their approach is to fire hygroscopic (water-attracting) salt flares from aircraft into warm cumuliform clouds,” Washington says.
• “So could seeding have built a huge storm system the size of France?
• Let’s be clear, that would be like a breeze stopping an intercity train going at full tilt.

The experiment of our lives

• Although last week’s deluge was unusual, the Arabian Peninsula does tend to receive more of its precipitation in heavy bursts than steady showers.
• What is likely to kill more people as temperatures rise in this part of the world is not water, but heat.
• At this threshold the air is so hot and humid that you cannot lower your temperature to a safe level by sweating.

• Peter Irvine, a lecturer in earth sciences at UCL, proposes dimming the sun by pumping microscopic particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect some of its rays.
• These layers of gases that surround our planet have nurtured life by keeping temperatures stable and harmful radiation out.
• Read more:
  Time is running out on climate change, but geoengineering has dangers of its own

  As humanity contemplates another large-scale experiment in our atmosphere, there is another, even bigger one, waiting to be resolved.

• "Climate: The Movie" is timely, as seven premiers and seventy percent of Canadians call for a pause in the upcoming carbon tax hike to $80/t, due April 1st, says Friends of Science Society.
• Far from facing a global warming problem, the documentary shows we are in a cold period of time.
• The claim is that you get more "climate money" in return for a rising carbon tax, a notion disputed by Friends of Science Society in their 2019 video " The Roots of Global Warming ."
• For people seeking more scientific information, Friends of Science Society has a number of full-length science presentations by many of the presenters featured in "Climate: The Movie" listed on their website under "Library" >" Past Events ."

• BALTIMORE, Md., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sunairio , the first software platform to leverage hyperlocal climate simulation for energy prediction, today announced it has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant.
• The NSF SBIR program , which selects less than 14% of applying startups, funds high-impact technological research and development (R&D) across a wide range of disciplines.
• —Rob Cirincione, CEO of Sunairio
  For Sunairio, the award will fund research into a new, highly scalable climate simulation engine that promises to generate climate insights for the energy sector at 1,000 times the resolution of traditional, physics-based global climate models, such as the ones which support the body of research conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
• To stay up-to-date on milestones related to this research and other initiatives at Sunairio, or to explore collaboration opportunities, please send an email to [email protected] .