Films

Prof. Evan DeLucia presenting ‘Farming with rocks – using agriculture to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere’ at the Plants, People, Planet Symposium in September 2019.

Cumulative greenhouse gas emissions commit Earth to a warmer climate and future species extinctions. We must start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to prevent catastrophe. Could Earth’s history provide a solution to the urgent threat of climate change? Watch the video to find out more, then read the paper:

Beerling, D. J. (2019) Can plants help us avoid seeding a human?made climate catastrophe? Plants, People, Planet. doi: 10.1002/ppp3.10066

Speaking at the UNFCCC COP24 Press Conference, 13th December 2018, with Stuart Scott, Executive Director of ScientistsWarning.org and Victoria Hurth, Associate Professor of Sustainable Business, University of Plymouth.

https://ScientistsWarning.org – David Beerling, University of Sheffield presents us with his current research into how we might trap gigatons of Carbon, using rock waste from previous mining, and a technique called ‘enhanced weathering’.

BBC Science Editor, David Shukman, reports on the hopes for potentially removing carbon dioxide from the air:

Scientists say it’s not enough to cut our emissions of greenhouse gases – we’ve got to draw them out of the air as well, if we’re to have any chance of avoiding the worst impacts of global warming. But how to do that? We look at the latest research.

Presented at the New Phytologist next generation scientists 2017 conference, John Innes Centre, Norwich, 24th July 2017.