Blake Lapthorn solicitors held a breakfast seminar on 31 March 2010 with speaker Tim Kruger, Director of Oxford Geoengineering Institute

1. Geoengineering: an insurance policy for Earth? Tim Kruger 31 March 2010

2. The Problem Greenhouse gas concentration stabilisation level (ppm CO 2 -eq) 4

3. The Problem 5

10. An assessment of geoengineering options Source: “Geoengineering the climate. Science, governance and uncertainty” (Royal Society, 2009)

11. CaCO 3  CaO + CO 2 CaO + H 2 O  Ca(OH) 2 Options Sequestration Enhanced Oil Recovery Growing Algae Ca(OH) 2 + 1.7CO 2  Ca 2+ + 1.4HCO 3 - + 0.3CO 3 2- + 0.3H 2 O CO 2 + H 2 O H 2 CO 3 H + + HCO 3 - 2H + + CO 3 2- The Lime Industry CO 2 Options Sequestration in the Ocean 6

12. Ca(OH) 2 + 1.7CO 2  Ca 2+ + 1.4HCO 3 - + 0.3CO 3 2- + 0.3H 2 O

18. A racket is a business that makes money by selling a solution to a problem that the business itself created

20. Thank you www.oxfordgeoengineering.org www.cquestrate.com