Inevitable & Obvious

How Do You Shift an Overton Window?

Marriage equality took 30 years. AI safety took 15. Climate interventions may have 10. Here's what we can learn.

Jan 29 • Paul Gambill

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The Stabilization Framework

We're not ready for the climate interventions that are coming. But we need to get ready. And that starts with being able to have the conversation.

Jan 20 • Paul Gambill

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You Can't Focus Group Your Way to Permission

Climate scientists and tech people speak different languages. The gap between them is where conspiracy theories thrive.

Jan 13 • Paul Gambill

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Nature Abhors a Narrative Vacuum

The climate intervention conspiracy theorists aren't coming. They're already running things. Who's going to fill the narrative vacuum?

Jan 5 • Paul Gambill

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December 2025

The Nori Archive

In 2018, you could fit a meaningful cross-section of the carbon removal industry into a single conference room. Here's what that looked like.

Dec 17, 2025 • Paul Gambill

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What It Takes to Make Cooling Interventions Thinkable

Before cooling becomes thinkable, two things have to click. The carbon removal community is already halfway there.

Dec 8, 2025 • Paul Gambill

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A Climate Goal for the Overshoot Era

We've organized climate policy around emissions for 30 years. But what we actually want is stability. That reframe changes everything.

Dec 2, 2025 • Paul Gambill

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November 2025

What’s the Difference Between Adaptation and Geoengineering?

Seawalls are acceptable. Stratospheric aerosols are taboo. But what about protecting ice sheets? I can't find a principled line.

Nov 25, 2025 • Paul Gambill

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Carbon Removal Won't Scale Fast Enough

Last week, I presented at CDR30’s session on “The Global Heating Emergency: What’s the Plan?” The event brought together the carbon removal community…

Nov 18, 2025 • Paul Gambill

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October 2025

How to Learn Everything You Need to Know About Climate Cooling

A Resource Guide for Getting Informed on SRM and Solar Geoengineering

Oct 11, 2025 • Paul Gambill

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September 2025

The Architecture for Cooling Earth Is Finally Taking Shape

By my estimate, fewer than a thousand people globally are working on cooling interventions. Now the Climate Emergencies Forum is helping this tiny…

Sep 30, 2025 • Paul Gambill

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August 2025

What Carbon Removal Taught Me About Cooling

Ten years building carbon removal taught me an uncomfortable truth: we need cooling interventions to buy time for everything else to work.

Aug 28, 2025 • Paul Gambill

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