[neverdem]

CC/GW PING

[PeterPrinciple]

Understanding the origins, transport mechanisms and fate of naturally occurring iron in high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll surface waters is important in calculating climate change, the scientists said.

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and there it is.................

They must not have gotten the memo that it is now called climate weirdness.

[BlueDragon]

While bottom fishing on the Santa Lucia Bank, West of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear power plant, I trawled up a strange looking more or less flat rock, (out of approx 250 fathoms depth), that was covered with deeply pitted and very iron rich, iron ore. I kept it (but by now, have since mislaid it)
It wasn't until some years later, that the rock broke in two, exposing a hard, bluish dull shining core, much different than the outer covering of rusty material. The inner portion certainly looked like fire formed igneous rock to me.

It's long been known there are various exposed ore bodies on the sea floor. Who knows what's underneath the sediments? Or how long things were exposed that are now long covered? The idea that iron ores would migrate, bit by bit into the water, isn't unexpected.

The Western Pacific isn't the only place the iron could be coming from...

The "Ring of Fire", circles the Pacific from the Asian side, up and around, all the way down to South America.

But maybe Wood's Hole is right, and the major portion of the iron came from the Kamchatka Kuril Island areas.

[OrioleFan]

Just add iron:

[RightWhale]

the biopump wants to grab all the iron it can

This phrase needs to be in the ice skaters' thread.

[SunkenCiv]

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[coconutt2000]

When a global warming proponent/zealot finally admits that we don’t know enough about atmospheric/environmental/oceanic chemistry and physics and their impact on climate and climate change, I’ll probably rediscover how to smile...

As it is, instead of spending billions on wealth transfer schemes disguised as climate policy, we should enact policies along three lines:

1) Tax breaks for American businesses to continue to clean up their manufacturing processes and to switch to environmentally friendly materials.
2) Research and Development spending on infrastructure and technologies that will enable our nation to survive any severe swings in climate.
3) Research dedicated to expanding our knowledge of our planet, our solar system, and the dangers that naturally exist regardless of human activities.

The first point is based purely on the idea that we have to live on this planet, and pollution will generally come back around and bite us in the butt. The second point is based on the idea that civilization is fragile, and overspecialization of our defense efforts toward one threat or another without preparation for broader or different threats is just asking for a civilization ending event to stab us in the back. The third point is a natural progression from the second, in that we should be on the look out for things that can and will probably blind side us.