Ryan Orbuch
8 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2022 by Ryan Orbuch · across every show →
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May 5, 2022
Orbuch: The Clean Air Act caused net warming by reducing reflective aerosols
“The Clean Air Act was pretty meaningfully net warming for Earth, right? Like, it was an objectively good thing, obviously. Like, it saved probably millions of lives. It protected, you know, millions of people, and especially vulnerable communities from really …”
May 5, 2022 negative
Jan 4, 2024 negative
Jan 4, 2024 negative
Orbuch: Legacy registry credits only vaguely corresponded to actual carbon cycles
“You need someone whose job it is, is to figure out the effect of a given thing on the carbon cycle. And we have said that the old registries played this role, and people believe they played that role, and that's what it meant for them to issue a ton. And that'…”
Jan 4, 2024 positive
Jan 4, 2024 positive
Orbuch: Tying supplier margins to narrowing error bars aligns incentives with science
“What you want is you want the supplier to be able to sell more tons and make more money for the same cogs if they can bring in the error bars around the uncertainty. And innovate on measurement, innovate on modeling, innovate on how they deploy, innovate on th…”
Jan 4, 2024 negative
Orbuch: Legacy carbon registries protected brokers by pretending cheap offsets were real
“The original sin with carbon markets was this bad incentive structure encouraged by registries that weren't aligned around the problem to protect the interests of the sellers and brokers of the credits, to make them look like there are enough credits at low en…”
Jan 4, 2024 negative
Orbuch: Overly conservative scientific governance breaks carbon removal project finance
“Like, loudest, most conservative scientist in the room-based governance doesn't work for this. You actually do need to make something off-takeable and contractable, and the way you do that is for these emerging more uncertain approaches, or the approaches that…”