What We're reading

Here is some of the collection of articles, papers, podcasts, and other sources that we're learning from, and which help to inspire our work. We hope this list is helpful to others on their learning journey.

Near-Term Warming

Why near term warming matters

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Spark

Why Methane Matters

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Catalyst with Shayle Kann

Beyond CO₂ equivalence: The impacts of methane on climate, ecosystems, and health

Mar et al
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Environmental Science & Policy

The need for fast near-term climate mitigation to slow feedbacks and avoid tipping points

Zaelke et al
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Institute for Governance and Social Development

Time to act to reduce short-lived climate pollutants

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Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)

Near-term Climate Protection and Clean Air Benefits: Actions for Controlling Short-Lived Climate Forcers

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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Mitigating climate disruption in time: A self-consistent approach for avoiding both near-term and long-term global warming

Dreyfus et al
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PNAS

Radiative Forcing

The evolution of radiative forcing bar-charts

Gavin Schmidt
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Real Climate - Climate science from climate scientists

Methane

Why curbing methane emissions will help fight climate change

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The Economist

Those who worry about CO₂ should worry about methane, too

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The Economist

Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions

Robert McSweeney
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CarbonBrief

Methane Hunters: What Explains the Surge in the Potent Greenhouse Gas?

Leslie Hook and Chris Campbell
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Financial Times

A methane mystery: Scientists probe unanswered questions about methane and climate change

Roz Pidcock
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CarbonBrief

Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming

Ocko et al
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Environmental Research Letters

Volts podcast: all about methane, with Sarah Smith of the Clean Air Task Force

David Roberts and Sarah Smith
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Volts

Global Methane Assessment

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Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)

Control methane to slow global warming — fast

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Nature

A Primer on Cutting Methane: The Best Strategy for Slowing Warming in the Decade to 2030

Ferris et al
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Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (2022)

Climate change: thinking outside the low carbon box

Peter Cox
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TEDxExeter

New methodologies for removal of methane from the atmosphere

Euan Nisbet
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GGR Research UK

The definitive CO₂/CH₄ comparison post

Gavin Schmidt
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Real Climate: Climate science from climate scientists

Lockdown methane INCREASE!! What's going on??

Just Have a Think
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Methane Action in 2022: A short summary of efforts to tackle the super pollutant.

Ross Zelen and Gil Damon
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Legal Planet

Agricultural and Enteric Methane

The Clean Cow Report: Cutting the Carbon Footprint of US Beef Production

Blaustein-Rejto et al
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Breakthrough Institute

Cow Burps Have a Big Climate Impact. Solving That is Harder than You'd Think

Joseph McFadden
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TIME

Methane is the climate opportunity food companies can’t afford to miss

Katie Anderson
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EDF

Tackling enteric methane: Designing effective methane solutions informed by U.S. dairy and beef producers’ perspectives

Anderson et al
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EDF

Opportunities to Reduce Methane Emissions from Global Agriculture

Searchinger et al
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Electron flow: key to mitigating ruminant methanogenesis

Leahy et al
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CellPress

Symposium review: Development of a funding program to support research on enteric methane mitigation from ruminants

Tricarico et al
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Journal of Dairy Science

Current enteric methane mitigation options

Beauchemin et al
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Journal of Dairy Science

JGIota: Looking Back at Methane-Making Microbes

Sinead Leahy and Bill Kelly
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Genome Insider

Developing Methane Inhibitors for Grazing Livestock on New Zealand Farms

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New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre

Natural Systems and Tipping Points

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points – paper explainer

David McKay
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Climate Tipping Points Info

In ominous sign for global warming, feedback loop may be accelerating methane emissions

Paul Voosen
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Science

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

McKay et al
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Science

It’s Happened Before: Paleoclimate Study Shows Warming Oceans Could Lead to a Spike in Seabed Methane Emissions

Bob Berwyn
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Inside Climate News

Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change

Robert McSweeney
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CarbonBrief

Atmospheric methane underestimated in future climate projections

Kleinen et al
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Environmental Research Letters

Cascading Interactions Between Tipping Elements in the Anthropocene Earth System

Jonathan Donges
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Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020

Peng et al
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Nature

How thawing permafrost could fuel climate warming

Michael Ovaska et al
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Reuters

Methane Removal

Atmospheric methane removal: a research agenda

Jackson et al
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The Royal Society

Is the destruction or removal of atmospheric methane a worthwhile option?

Nisbet-Jones et al
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The Royal Society

Photodissociation of particulate nitrate as a source of daytime tropospheric Cl 2

Peng et al
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Nature Communications

Perspectives on removal of atmospheric methane

Ming et al
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Advances in Applied Energy

The Critical Role of Methane in Addressing the Climate Emergency

Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
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EDF Science Day Presentation

Robert B. Jackson
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Atmospheric- and Low-Level Methane Abatement via an Earth-Abundant Catalyst

Brenneis et al
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ACS Environmental AU

Photocatalytic oxidation of methane over silver decorated zinc oxide nanocatalysts

Chen et al
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Nature Communications

Removal of non-CO₂ greenhouse gases by large-scale atmospheric solar photocatalysis

de Richter et al
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Progress in Energy and Combustion Science

Biofiltration of methane

La et al
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Bioresource Technology

Atmospheric removal of methane by enhancing the natural hydroxyl radical sink

Wang et al
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Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology

Novel and efficient synthesis of Ag-ZnO nanoparticles for the sunlight-induced photocatalytic degradation

Liu et al
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Applied Surface Science

Comment on “Review of Methane Mitigation Technologies with Application to Rapid Release of Methane from the Arctic”

Andrew Lockley
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Environmental Science & Technology

Climate engineering by mimicking natural dust climate control: the iron salt aerosol method

Oeste et al
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Earth System Dynamics

Cage effects control the mechanism of methane hydroxylation in zeolites

Snyder et al
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Science

Review of Methane Mitigation Technologies with Application to Rapid Release of Methane from the Arctic

Stolaroff et al
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Environmental Science & Technology

Atmospheric methane removal by methane-oxidizing bacteria immobilized on porous building materials

Ganendra et al
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Environmental biotechnology

Feasibility of atmospheric methane removal using methanotrophic biotrickling filters

Yoon et al
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Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

A nature-based negative emissions technology able to remove atmospheric methane and other greenhouse gases

Ming et al
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Atmospheric Pollution Research

Systems Change

Jeremy Grantham on Climate Change Philanthropy

Jeremy Grantham
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The Race of Our Lives

Jeremy Grantham
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SRI Conference & Community

Adventures in market shaping

Dai Ellis
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