[C]Worthy In the News
Interviews, Articles, Webinars, and more.
Climate Interventions: Carbon Dioxide Removal at Scale
“Just remember these are not just companies pushing this forward, these are not just policy objectives – these are entire groups and disciplines of scientists who are coming along on this journey of helping us understand what it means to do these types of interventions in the natural world.”
As Temperatures Rise, So Does Pressure to Engineer the Ocean
“The verification step has to be non-profit, and it has to be separate from your money-making scheme,” says Ho, who co-founded [C]Worthy, a nonprofit that makes open-source software to quantify the efficacy and side effects of marine carbon removal. “As ocean biogeochemists, if we have the inclination and we have the skills, then it behooves us to work on it.”
VirtualiZarr: Create virtual Zarr stores using xarray syntax
[C]Worthy staff scientist for data analytics, Tom Nicholas, Ph.D., leads a discussion with Pangeo about VirtualiZarr, his tool developed to overcome some limitations of the “kerchunk” idea in wrangling big datasets like those being used to build software at [C]Worthy.
Alicia Karspeck and AirMiners: How to Build an MRV Ecosystem
MRV is the fulcrum of all things CDR so we're having an event centered on the growing MRV ecosystem and how everyone plays together. How does data flow, what are the needed inputs and outputs of each, where are the challenges, overlaps, and opportunities for optimization of the whole process?
Worth: Tom Kalil’s Renaissance Philanthropy Recruits Wealthy Science Funders
“These projects are also challenging to do in an academic setting because they require a larger group of people than you have in a single academic lab…So, what they proposed was to create non-profit science startups.”
Effectiveness of mCDR: Measurement, reporting, and verification of ocean alkalinity enhancement.
Experts discuss the importance of rigorous MRV, entities potentially responsible for funding and conducting MRV, existing ocean observing infrastructure and modeling capabilities, and implementation readiness.
Will stashing more CO2 in the ocean help slow climate change?
‘CDR can be thought of like “a time machine,” David Ho, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, wrote last year in Nature. Stripping some of the CO2 out of the atmosphere would be like returning to an earlier time with lower concentrations.
Oceanography Professors Transform a Research Tool into a Startup That’s Sucking CO2 from Seawater
"As the world hurtles toward dangerously warmer temperatures, international experts advise that carbon removal will be essential to avoiding the worst climate outcomes.”
A Growing Problem: Is It Too Late To Plant Trees for Climate Change?
[C]Worthy Chief Science Officer David Ho is interviewed by The Weather Network to answer questions about mCDR, carbon emissions reduction, and planting trees.
Isometric and [C]Worthy partner to advance marine carbon dioxide removal research
Isometric is partnering with [C]Worthy—a non-profit “Focused Research Organization” that is building C-Star (Computational Systems for Tracking Ocean Carbon).
Time Magazine: The U.S. Energy Department Is Spending $36 Million On Ocean Carbon-Capture Research
"Matt Long, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and director of [C]Worthy, a nonprofit aiming to help build tools to measure and verify ocean carbon removal, is working on a project that received about $3.9 million in ARPA-E’s announcement today.”
Sea Change: Can we alter the chemistry of the ocean to save the climate?
Our CEO, Matt Long, talks about [C]Worthy, ocean alkalinity enhancement, and MRV on this podcast with Solve for X.
Sea Change Radio: David Ho on Carbon Offsets: Much Ado About Nothing?
"Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO₂. But how many of us actually know what things like carbon offsets and carbon dioxide removal are all about?”
Carbon Herald: New Research Will Assess Efficiency Of Ocean Alkalinity In Removing CO₂ From The Air
"'This project represents the first time an alkalinity release will be conducted along with the dual tracer technique and allows us the opportunity to determine the movement of CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere and track the evolution of an ocean alkalinity enhancement…”
BBC Radio 4 Inside Science: Interview with David Ho
As we emit CO₂ into the atmosphere, a significant amount - around a third - is taken in by the oceans. With growing interest in carbon removal interventions, ocean scientist Dr David T. Ho tells Gaia about undertaking an exciting experiment.
This Is CDR Ep. 81: [C]Worthy - Safe, Effective, Verifiable Tools for Marine CDR - Dr. Matthew Long
This Is CDR OpenAir welcomes [C]Worthy Co-Founder and Executive Director Matthew Long to discuss the new organization's vital mission to build software that supports multi-scale oceanographic modeling and data integration for quantifying the efficacy and ecological impacts of marine CDR.
Salon: Do carbon removal strategies actually work?
‘The problem is, ocean uptake is relatively slow, compared to our rate of emission,' Long told Salon in a phone interview.
Time: The Ocean is the Next Frontier for the Carbon Removal Industry
'The requirements for ramping up carbon removal are so dramatically challenging that it’s really an all hands on deck moment for the scientific community.’
The National Academies: Climate Intervention in an Earth Systems Science Framework: A Workshop
The National Academies convened a workshop to consider the application of an Earth system science approach to research related to emerging approaches to climate intervention.
Bloomberg: How Shocking the Ocean Could Turn It Into a Carbon Removal Powerhouse
“University of Hawaii oceanographer David Ho argues that the massive ramp-up in renewable energy needed to power ocean-based CDR on the scale Equatic advocates for would be better deployed to curtail fossil fuel use.”