Curbing Climate Change
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Methane concentrations could be restored to preindustrial levels of ~750ppb by oxidizing ~3.2 of the 5.3 Pg methane in the atmosphere catalytically. This thermodynamically favorable reaction would cut total radiative forcing by approximately one sixth. We propose to test the feasibility of fully oxidizing methane from bulk air--to our knowledge the first attempt to do so--using zeolites. Such a goal of atmospheric restoration provides a framework for change at a time when climate action is desperately needed.
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Stanford human rights experts, engineers, economists, geologists, marine biologists and others soon will collaborate on finding new ways to combat air pollution, mine wastewater for valuable resources, reduce food waste and more.