The Gigaton: Special Edition Update
Hi Gigaton Readers,
TLDR; We’re using this week to give some exciting updates on our team and our mission, check back next time for a return to our usual content!
When we founded this newsletter a little over a year ago, we set out to:
Be a resource to those looking to find careers in climate
Cut through greenwashing by sharing the carbon reduction potential of different solutions
Highlight the companies and climate leaders that are moving the needle most
And over the past year, we’ve seen this community grow beyond our highest hopes. We’ve had student authors from Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, and Columbia; we’ve profiled solutions that we believe are going to change the world, like nuclear fission and mass timber and regenerative agriculture; we’ve interviewed climate leaders from companies like UPSIDE Foods and The Supplant Company. And in the process, we’ve amassed an incredibly engaged community of climate leaders and readers that inspire us to keep going.
Now, we’re expanding our team. We started this newsletter as MBA students at Stanford, but The Gigaton has become a cross-university initiative, so we’re adding team members from across schools to help us continue to grow. We’re staying involved, and with this bigger team, will be able to move faster and expand our reach further:
We’re truly inspired by each new member of our team and feel honored to have them join us in growing The Gigaton! If you have any questions for us, or would like to get involved or discuss guest authoring an article, please reach out to: thegigaton@gmail.com
Your climate team,
Stella, Joseff, and Georgia
Great ideas take flight!! Measuring emissions, particularly remote drone or satellite holds big promise for start -ups. NASA is just beginning to really fine tune data to be able to capture what we cannot observe. Emission critical ! Wow what a great name for a start-up.
Of particular excitement is the new finding from NASA Feb '22 Steamy Relationships: How Atmospheric Water Vapor Supercharges Earth’s Greenhouse Effect by Alan Buis, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, February 8, 2022) https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3143/steamy-relationships-how-atmospheric-water-vapor-supercharges-earths-greenhouse-effect/.
Just think of all the reservoirs, particularly located in extreme climates, poles and the equatorial regions. Can you imagine how much GHG water vapor emissions is entering into our atmosphere.
We need Documentation!!! Probes that can reach into the remotest areas, this happens to also be where hydroelectric super-sized containment reservoirs lie. These same probes can measure the immense methane and carbon dioxide emissions that are bubbling up from all the melting permafrost under these remote sea-size shallow hydroelectric reservoirs. And can alsomeasure all the decaying organic matter that is often under these containments in equatorial areas as well.
We need Earth-Climate saving start-ups that have the data and can point the finger at the largest GHG polluters and it is much, much more than fossil fuels that are causing our climate woes