Climate Restoration Roadmap 2024

The Climate Emergency Forum welcomes Peter Fiekowsky back to discuss his recently released Climate Restoration Roadmap 2024 paper which outlines a plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030 and restore a historically safe climate by 2050.
This video was recorded on February 13th, 2024, and published on March 3rd, 2024, and represents the opinions of the discussion participants.
Peter presents a vision for restoring the climate by engaging individuals in a hypothetical exercise to emphasize the simplicity and affordability of reverting CO2 levels to those of a century ago. The dialogue outlines a detailed roadmap for climate restoration, focusing on governance, funding mechanisms like the Grandparents Fund, and nature-inspired solutions such as ocean fertilization and methane oxidation.
Regina introduces Peter, highlighting his expertise and the urgent need to address climate change issues often overlooked by mainstream media. Peter engages the audience in an exercise, proposing a hypothetical button to revert atmospheric CO2 levels to those of a century ago, emphasizing the feasibility and affordability of climate restoration efforts.
The participants express support for Peter's pragmatic approach to climate restoration and acknowledge the critical state of the planet. They discuss the necessity of shifting societal consciousness towards prioritizing climate restoration as an emergency response. The dialogue applauds Peter's structured plan for addressing climate change and highlights recent validations from institutions like MIT, Bezos Earth Fund, and California, signaling a growing momentum towards climate restoration efforts globally.
Links:
- Climate Restoration Working Paper
docs.google.com/document/d/1l...
- Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race (Book)
www.amazon.com/Climate-Restor...
- Bezos Earth Fund
www.bezosearthfund.org/
- California Senate passes first climate-restoration resolution: Safe climate an "obligation to future generations"
www.abc4.com/business/press-r...
- Climate Restoration Safety and Governance Board
www.crsgb.org/
- The Grandparents Fund for Climate Restoration
www.gcr.fund/
- Global Climate Changes as Forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies Three-Dimensional Model (pdf)
pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/...
- Unprecedented Crime (Book)
www.claritypress.com/product/...
- Charles David Keeling
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
- Rocking Chair Rebellion
www.nextavenue.org/rocking-ch...
- A New Climate Vocabulary (CEF Video)
• A New Climate Vocabulary
- The Pinatubo Pause and Natural Ocean Iron Fertilization
docs.google.com/document/d/1a...
- RAND Corporation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Co...
- Global Warming in the Pipeline and Earth's Energy Imbalance (CEF Video)
• Global Warming in the ...
- Ocean Restoration Update 2023 (CEF Video)
• Ocean Restoration - Up...
- Global Carbon Budget 2023
www.globalcarbonproject.org/c...
Guest:
Peter Fiekowsky - As an MIT-trained physicist and entrepreneur Peter is committed to leaving a world we can be proud of to our children. This commitment has driven his work on multiple climate initiatives, including founding the Foundation for Climate Restoration & helping launch the Citizens’ Climate Lobby. He is also founder & president of Automated Visual Inspection (AVI) LLC. He holds 27 patents.
Regular Panelists:
Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer & the director of the Climate Emergency Institute
Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Prof. at the Univ. of Ottawa's Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University
Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow & LEED Green Associate
Video Production & Panelists:
Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster & IT prime for Facing Future & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader
Heidi Brault - Video production & website assistant, Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP team lead for the Climate Emergency Forum & Facing Future; BA (Psych.); Climate Reality Leader
Our Website:
climateemergencyforum.org/
Attributions:
Background Music:
- Title: Through the City II
- Author: Crowander
- Source: Free Music Archive
- License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Image & Video: climateemergencyforum.org/ass...
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[@EmeraldView]

I appreciate that people are still fighting. I wish I could be more hopeful about it.

[@bjlyon615]

The large-scale dumping of fertilizers, especially those containing iron for ocean fertilization, can have adverse effects on marine ecosystems. Excessive nutrient input may lead to harmful algal blooms and oxygen depletion, causing “dead zones” where marine life struggles to survive.

[@h.e.hazelhorst9838]

Maybe, maybe not. We should start experimenting right away to find out the best way, instead of sitting on our hands waiting till the whole system collapses. By the way: it already happens in a natural way, as easterly winds from the Sahari take dust that’s partially deposited in the Atlantic Ocean.

[@treefrog3349]

The Climate Restoration Roadmap 20024 is a BEAUTIFUL, necessary and immensely sensible plan. It is also a pollyanna-ish conglomeration of wishful thinking. The operative economic forces that have led us to this ecological precipice are ever-more powerful than they were decades ago. Greed and Power has over-whelmed the "better angels" of humanity. As much as I admire your benign efforts, I am simultaneously awed by your naiveté. Money rules the world. Wisdom and compassion have left the room.

[@amberazurescale5617]

Thanks for this statement, I thought just the same! I say it's quite an impressive amount of pipe dreaming and ain't gonna happens for a single video. They got a nice little dream about "saving the world" and make it sound soo simple. Somebody needs to give em a wakeup call.

[@paulburick1506]

I heartily concur. You are correct.

[@OurPredicament]

we got a smart guy, a rich guy and a politician to say we can "restore the planet" so don't call it geoengineering anymore, OK?

[@EmeraldView]

Okay 😂 😋

[@j.s.c.4355]

Can you imagine if we suddenly restored the climate of 1850? It would probably be the best thing for all of us, but it would feel like an ice age to 21st Century folks.

[@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa]

I am an oceanographer. Iron fertilization has been tried several times. All were failures. There was one study that showed possible positive results, but the long term effects were minimal and short lived. With any geoengineering scheme, there are always unforeseen parameters, unanticipated interactions that just yields results that were not the desired ones and unintended consequences. Remember, we have been doing a huge geoengineering experiment to the planet for close to 300 years. To think you can reverse all this damage within 10-20 years is naive and foolhardy. You can't argue with physics. And for this MIT physicist to think this is possible is just mind blowing.

[@Alfon_sico]

Hi. What about SRM and SAI to stratosphere?

[@Silks-]

Peter is awesome. I've noticed that in the past he was always telling extremely important and profound information, however in a way of talking that didn't reflect the importance of what he was saying. Recently however he's become really emotive and it does make a huge difference, it instils a feeling of just how serious it is. Just thought I'd give some positive feedback Peter, it's been a great improvement, as many are only receptive to that kind of communication no matter how serious the content is. Edit: I also loved your discussion with Roger Hallam a while back. He's a legend also. It was a good combo with you being the expert in facts, and him with the social expertise.

[@OurPredicament]

"the only people against it are the scientists"😂😂😂

[@j.s.c.4355]

I know, right? These people just lost me as a viewer for good.

[@flammungous3068]

Hmmm I wonder if that is a clue as to whether we should do it or not...🤦

[@johnthomasriley2741]

The key to showing love for the oceans is to monitor everything done. Let’s modify hundreds of pleasure vessels to take ground truth . Called the Iron Seas Fleet in my books. The lead boat should be Tally Ho.❤

[@anamariacarvalho6738]

See You❤

[@CitiesForTheFuture2030]

There IS a comprehensive climate mitigation project that began in 2001 & initiated in 2013 - Project Drawdown. It was developed by scientists. It has identified 100 projects to - reduce GHG emissions - enhance GHG drawdown Top interventions include - more enviro friendly refrigeration & management - solar & wind - forest restoration (altho more carbon stored in mangrove & kelp forests, seagrasses, peatlands & soils) - more plant-based diet - less food waste - family planning - education of women & girls, awa gender equity - methane leak management - restorative agriculture such as silvopasture It's estimated that approx 80% of people will live in cities by 2050'ish - climate solutions MUST come from cities (cities must become less parasitic on its hinterlands). According to a few marine experts ocean fertilization won't work due to the nature of the marine food chain (only less 1% of carbon captured will be sequested on the ocean floor; most of it will end up in the ocean biomass). There is a second option that will work - I forget its name though. Climate solutions are required in almost every aspect of human activities but mostly in relation to electrification awa agriculture. We understand the ecological, biodiversity & climate crisis is terms of physics & chemistry, but these are a result of human world views & decision-making i.e. the purview of the social sciences. Solutions exist right now that can decarbonise over 90% of human systems with scientists working hard to decarbonise more tricky activities - such as some critical industrial & manufacturing processes & long distance transport & freight. While the solutions are available, the political & economic will to transform our society is not - too many vested interests in maintaining the status quo. Instead of working together we are competing to a few people can get filthy rich - humans have not learned their lesson from past mistakes.

[@anamariacarvalho6738]

Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes...remover The CO2 rigth now

[@OurPredicament]

how the heck would turning the ocean bright green help with fisheries? This whole video has William Catton just spinning in his grave

[@kirkha100]

Absolutely.

[@anamariacarvalho6738]

Marine planos tô clean The oceano tô save The coral....

[@anamariacarvalho6738]

Send him my Best regards ....love😂

[@michaelschiessl8357]

Many thanks Regina,Paul,Peter and Peter for this great informative report...

[@ClimateEmergencyForum]

You're welcome

[@davidwalker2942]

43:49 Reference: the book "Sea of Slaughter" by Canadian author Farley Mowat.

[@chaz0matic]

STAPLES already has the EASY button!

[@user-oh3xt9bm2c]

I have the WITCH CACKLE button!

[@Solar.Geoengineering.Advocate]

i want to believe we can do this. but i just dont think we will. because as ive learned from years of stratospheric aerosol injection research, you can accidentally geoengineer tf out of the planet which all of civilization has been one big geoengineering project. and few people bat an eyelid. as soon as you suggest deliberately geoengineering in a way that might actually be beneficial, everyone loses their damn minds and everyone does everything to stamp out such an idea. i dont know much about ocean fertilization but ive no doubt the consensus will be we cant have anyone doing any ocean fertilization until it has been tested in the lab forever and there is global agreement that we should be doing it and global agreement will never ever materialise

[@EmeraldView]

I think you're right. We won't. Even if it could work, which is unlikely.

[@anamariacarvalho6738]

Loke a map of aquíferos....lakes under The ground Water

[@paulburick1506]

I am losing sleep. Phoenix AZ is paving the desert 🏜️ over. Heat island effect. Building at a frenetic pace. Daughter lives there. Horrible.

[@j.s.c.4355]

The median income in the USA is about $25k. So unless you’re under that number, no, you are not in the bottom half.

[@jdcjr50]

Thank you very much for helping to see the path forward in equilibrium-seeking.

[@flamegarden]

This is a fantastic framework and proposal. It is heartening. I have to say that as someone whose entire life has been for restoring peace and nature, I find it distressing that Paul is advocating for literal Trumpian GLOCK war language in this discussion for adoption in all of these scientific fields. I would *seriously* advise against it.

[@Solar.Geoengineering.Advocate]

45:15 no youre wrong. we dont need all kinds of thinking, weve been pondering over climate change since the 80s and done nothing. make sunsets as feeble (not their fault) as they are actually have what you lot need to have and thats the gumption to actually start doing something.

[@anthonydavies6021]

How good to believe there is hope for the future of the planet! I do not, however, in Peter's vison hear anything about changing the way we live i.e. learning to live sustainably. If the funding for his project comes from the most wealthy, who are also those who are most responsible for the climate emergency,, are we not putting the lunatics in charge of the asylum? Even if they could "fix the Earth" would they have a vested interest to modify their unsustainable lifestyles? Better to say: let all of mankind contribute: let the technology and the knowledge be freely available to all (no patenting); ensure all peoples and countries are included in the decision making (why should the US be assumed to lead the effort - aren't there brilliant scientists in Russia for instance?). Honestly the UN seems to be the obvious body to oversee such a project (why reinvent the wheel?). Thought provoking discussion but I remain concerned that the very country that led us down the free market all-out consumption road to climate catastrophe can be trusted to disinterestedly lead us on the straight and narrow pathway away from it now...Perhaps a follow-up discussion on the ethics of this should follow?

[@singingway]

Yes. And... There used to be outstanding universities and brilliant scientists in Gaza, just a few months ago.

[@eugeneclark5316]

Well there is the Climate Plan 2019 found on the interent arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html

[@sudd3660]

we can not get any real thing done within a monetary system, maybe a fixed income for everyone in a transition phase, but that is it. and owning land also have to go, but is also related to money. co2 is also related to pollution, if we get to focused on c02 we will borrow from the future in regards to pollution to get our c02 goals. that is a really bad outcome.

[@singingway]

Can you explain a little more about how focusing too much on CO2 is borrowing from the future. Are you saying a more effective way would be to focus on pollution and sustainability?

[@TennesseeJed]

Climate casino! Thanks y'all!

[@Alex_Plante]

Too much fertilization in the wrong place at the wrong time can cause eutrophication, i.e., the depletion of oxygen in the water. We need to first do testing and careful measurement of the results so as to determine the dosage, timing and placing that has net positive results.

[@sudd3660]

please no fertilization, it is like juggling the harmful effects when we can just be without and have no harmful effects at all.

[@Ozymandiaz80]

The plan is deep ocean fertilisation, and eutro is an issue in shallow waters. It's a decent thing to investigate further, and fast.

[@justcollapse5343]

Hmmm... the 1st 'problem' with this 'solution' is that it does not identify and address the predicament of #overshoot from which the symptom of climate change derives. Treating an isolated symptom in isolation from its root cause produces maladaptive responses which exacerbate and compound our predicament. The 2nd problem is success. What if this effort succeeded? If success look in this case looks like the ability to maintain overshoot then the human enterprise will continue to draw down carrying capacity for all species further accelerating our #SixthMassExtinction event. How is this a 'solution' to anything? :/

[@kirkha100]

Couldn’t be stated better. Thanks.

[@anamariacarvalho6738]

In France ...

[@alexandrabryden6143]

Great show, very positive and optimistic. Our old folk. (I'm 65), are spending more money on trivia than at any other time. Yes, us grey hared humans do care about our grandchildren future but how do we get concensus with the rich oldies.

[@stevealdrich2472]

That's "we grey haired" humans.

[@caterthun4853]

Cop 28 years.. We think we have a plan.. If it happens.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

When you start talking about reducing forestry and fishery, you are touching on the overpopulation issue. What will replace fossil fuels for our needed energy? How much will it take to meet the basic needs of 8 billion plus people? To live off the land, it would take 4-5 acres per person. We don't have 4-5 acres per person.

[@robertsummerfield3386]

You don't ever make mention of the ongoing climate engineering programs that have been active and expanding worldwide for over 76 years.

[@Solar.Geoengineering.Advocate]

he doesnt because hes not a conspiracy lunatic. if he had mentioned that he believes in chemtrails and all that he would lose all credibility amongst the non brain damaged community

[@paulburick1506]

We are not encouraged to stop suburban sprawl. Tree habitat fields need propagated

[@user-we3wg8ly3q]

Why arn't we???? Lets get going.

[@user-oh3xt9bm2c]

Ain't gonna happen. Predicaments don't have solutions - sorry.

[@geraldmantel4955]

Amerika .... DUH!

[@jocelynevkb5889]

Let's eat less fish & meat, once a week only, as our forebears did. Stopping our animal based-protein gluttony would save the oceans & our future on planet Earth!

[@vthilton]

Save Our Planet Now!

[@EmeraldView]

How about tomorrow?

[@user-oh3xt9bm2c]

How about yesterday?

[@anamariacarvalho6738]

The us a marine plantão which s u c k s. Co2

[@miguel5785]

Interesting, but the science on restoring the climate via iron fertilization is inconclusive. How is it possible that you are all so readily on board but do not include any scientific evidence in your sources?

[@FrankWhite437]

Hopium no doubt

[@j.s.c.4355]

So you want to eutrophie the entire ocean?!

[@mikepotter5718]

Ivory tower - a state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world.

[@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse]

Speaking of whales, how are we going to address all the shipping and the sonar and the noise that makes all of these beautiful creatures crazy? Business as usual it's not going to work. Another thing, if Trump gets reelected in the United States all bets are off for everything. We're on a precipice. I hate to be so negative, But it's hard not to be when you live in a place where people are brainwashed -ignorant and don't understand anything you're talking about. Look at this video. 2.4 thousand views. And that's only because it's the same people that follow over and over and over. I don't know how anything's gonna get done, I have no answers but suffice it to say, I do support lots of efforts BUT I don't know about all these Geo engineering schemes.

[@danielfaben5838]

Glimmer time! Valid by scientist because it is allowable! Engineers said it can be done! The customer is not the rest of the planet. The customer is only people.... And I am not a garbage man. I am a sanitary engineer. And people are not doing nothing. They are doing the same thing. It is as always because humans are practical about keeping things similar. Want change? Try easing up on the accelerator before putting on the brake. But be prepared to eliminate high standards of living, living large at the expense of the rest of creation. This means depopulating cities and digging lots of graves. If you want to be an engineer, be ready to be used by the wealthy/populist/fascists/demagogues. You too can make things go careening onward!

[@A3Kr0n]

No plans? I've heard people's plans on how to amerolate climate damage for years. Unfortunately, endless plans and reports haven't helped anything.

[@sudd3660]

a few has made plans, but most people won't listen and does nothing. each year more dratic efforts had to take place to make a difference. now it is too late for billions :( and you complain about people thinking and trying?

[@user-ee2gq8zy3k]

4:45 : “To my knowledge nobody has come back from heaven and say: Hey, it`s true, if you behave well you`ll go to heaven”. Well…, try to read something about Near Dead Experiences: Eben Alexander for example and others (hundreds to thousands) May be, your knowledge will increase, who knows… Self-congratulatory attitudes are not highly recommended for real science, nevertheless can make you feel smarter than others. Always is good to find the way that makes you feel better, even if that position doesn´t let you go farther. I know this is a “conjecture”, don't hesitate, I know the answers from materialistic scientist world. Anyone has the right to feel happier with their believes on his own way, isn`t it? But assuming that there is no heaven or spiritual world because there is no empirical proof of it, would mean asserting that only what we are able to measure exists, and this, in itself, is a completely false premise. After this mild criticism, thank you for your time and for trying to help us from climate change, indeed! Good afternoon from Spain, the Land of the Burning Sun (and getting worst)

[@radman1136]

Just the thought of touting validation from Bezos is obscene at more than one level. Religion? Vampire superstitions? What's wrong with you?

[@larrytaylor693]

Thats a big pipe of hopeium. and dont address many of the problems we are currently living with . Texas is burning up the majority of the united states have been enjoying a February thats ended like may when they slatter all the beef because they cant afford to feed them and a late freeze kills all the blooms that oroduce fruit then the rest of the year crazy weather cuts crops productivity down to never seen before levels theres going to be some high prices at the grocery like never seen before . Three months give or take .

[@sudd3660]

you can not solve the problems that are coming, but you can sacrifice enough to make an positive impact. anything that is a problem must go, anything unhealthy must stop, anything that can not last four thousand of years must go. and for the love of earth and life, do not go out with a bang and dragging everyone with you down the drain. the worst thing is to fight and hoard and keep the wheels of the current system spinning.

[@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse]

Larry you really did the good fight most of your life. I don't wanna see you give up, I know you get frustrated overwhelmed and upset at all of the nonsense when you did have a pretty good philosophy. The windy day concept and supporting Hemp. It's just a shame people don't listen to those who are really inspirational.