by Robert Kelly | Nov 1, 2019 | Geocarbon
There exists a fascinating, if admittedly niche, strand of scientific enquiry that attempts to answer the counterfactual question: what would the surface of the Earth look like if life – plants, animals, humans – did not exist? Would weathering and erosion rates be...
by Robert Kelly | Mar 22, 2018 | Permanence
[This is the second part of a two-part piece about permanence. Part 1 can be found here.] Permanence is a concept that’s easily grasped but not well understood. Arguably, that didn’t much matter when questions of permanence were confined to forestry and other LULUCF...