Ocean iron fertilization test in south Atlantic given go ahead
One concern though is the effect that this will have on ocean ecosystems. Now, following a discovery by a British Royal Navy vessel off the coast of Antarctica, some of these concerns have been allayed enough for a test of the procedure near South Georgia Island:
Icebergs Release Enough Iron to Allow Larger Testing
The discovery which led up to this is that melting icebergs are already releasing large enough quantities of tiny iron particles iron into the oceans that fears about harming marine life have been reduced sufficiently to perform larger scale iron fertilization tests.
Prof Rob Raiswell of Leeds University, who is lead researcher on the project described the discovery by saying, “The Earth itself seems to want to save us.”
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- pjacobs51
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So in a way yer saying the ocean is anemic? =O
Poor Gaia.-
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- VegaNerDiva
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This is almost ironic. A simmilar potential cooling affect was found in other harmful pollutants. Our efforts to removed certain pollutants increaded the affects of our carbon emmisions. Now it seems that we may need to make algal blooms to save the world is also painfully ironic. It reminds me of the futurama episode when 20th century garbage making skills are required to stop a giant garbage ball from destroying 30th century earth.
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I'm glad to see this finally going ahead. We would have been doing this at least a year ago if it wasn't for a few crazy enviromentalists stopping them. Check out the planktos team for more info.
Planktos Home:
http://www.planktos.blogspot.com/Carbon Discredit - Article from Popular Science about them.
http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-07/carbon-discredit-
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- TReaper405
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WIZARD OF OZ founder of Iron Fertilization?
“No one’s ever actually come out here to see me before,” he said.
This surprised me. George – along with his self-described “foundation” dubbed “Planktos” and his claim that putting dissolved iron into the ocean will help stop global warming – had recently been the subject of a two-page feature in one of the world’s most prestigious science journals, the London-based Nature. He’d been on the BBC, on a major New York City radio station and claimed to be speaking with staff at PBS’ evening news hour about a show. Newspapers all around the world had quoted him.
CLICK to read about the Wizard of Fertilization
http://www.loe.org/series/iron_fertilization/ -
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