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We Have Entered the Era of Intentional Geo-Engineering

Posted By mike On January 25, 2009 @ 12:29 pm In Small Foot Print | 1 Comment

for better or worse, some folks are now experimenting with some ideas to help sequester carbon dioxide. Adding iron to the ocean waters is one such experiment that is going on.

Cane toads and other cautionary stories abound, but there is an argument that it is time to try intentional engineering as the counterweight to all of the unintentional engineering we do on the small blue plane that we have industrialized.

Climate Ark website has been busy trying to rouse opposition to these large scale experiments. I am on the fence at this moment. I don’t like cane toads and I don’t like where we are clearly headed. Something has to be done. It would be good for us if what is done would roll us back toward 350 ppm.

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Will Ocean Iron Fertilization Work?

Getting carbon into the ocean is one thing. Keeping it there is another.

In this age of satellites, it’s fairly easy to answer the basic
question of whether adding iron to the ocean can stimulate a plankton
bloom. When storms over land blow iron-rich dust into the sea,
satellite images show marbled swaths of green phytoplankton spinning
across waters previously blue and barren. Satellites also show plankton
blooms near the Gal

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