[aruanan]

1. Instead it should precipitate out to the bottom, coating the ocean floor in sludge.

2. If this happens too close to the continental shelf we’ll lose the ocean as a food source,

3. if the currents take it out to deep water I hypothesize the end result will be better for the environment. The deep cold waters will act as a natural containment.

Do you know what the residence time for Gulf water is? None of your conclusions follow from the premises. Try not to gush so much. It'll be better for the FR environment.

[EBH]

Sorry you didn’t get the dry “science” humor from my response to a post, not the article.