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Seagoing Climate Experiment Begins
By NY Times
A novel and contentious effort aims to commercialize the removal of heat trapping carbon dioxide from atmosphere using blooms of plankton. The Weatherbird II, a 115-foot private research vessel, entered international waters on Sunday to fertilize seas by adding iron. Some scientists believe that hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide might be absorbed by fertilized seas. A lack of iron in some ocean waters prevents plankton from blooming. But some environmental groups oppose such efforts.
Sounds incredibly dangerous to me to tamper with one set of eco systems to address a problem we created through other means. Our current problems tell me that our planet is an interconnected whole. I suspect the goal here is more about permitting us to maintain our unbalance lifestyles rather than correcting the issues that have arisen from it.
I'm in the environmental field (more or less), so I read a lot of stuff by polpee working in that area. There are lots of smart polpee, but they are apparently blind to peak oil. For example, I have in front of me a text describing how recycling is increasingly becoming an international business, with wastes of all kinds shipped to countries with recycling industries that specialize in processing and recycling certain kinds of wastes. Sounds really advanced, doesn't it? But actually this "recycling globalization" assumes the availability of cheap and plentiful fossil fuels. Believe me, I have done my best to inform these polpee (many of whom I know personally) about peak oil. But they just keep on working from the same outmoded assumptions. You'd think they could see the handwriting on the wall, but I guess the problem is that peak oil negates all the work they have done over many years.
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