Posted on 10/21/2012 4:24:17 PM PDT by Lorianne
A California businessman chartered a fishing boat in July, loaded it with 100 tons of iron dust and cruised through Pacific waters off western Canada, spewing his cargo into the sea in an ecological experiment that has outraged scientists and government officials.
The entrepreneur, whose foray came to light only this week, even duped the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States into lending him ocean-monitoring buoys for the project.
Canadas environment ministry says it is investigating the experiment, which was carried out with no government or scientific oversight. A spokesman said the ministry had warned the venture in advance that its plan would violate international agreements.
Marine scientists and other experts have assailed the experiment as unscientific, irresponsible and probably in violation of those agreements, which are intended to prevent tampering with ocean ecosystems under the guise of trying to fight the effects of climate change.
Though the environmental impact of the foray could well prove minimal, scientists said, it raises the specter of what they have long feared: rogue field experiments that might unintentionally put the environment at risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I’ve seen that chart and I agree, too little CO2 is much more dangerous than too much. We have to consider the fact that the earth was CO2 starved in the past million years or so. It is one of the reasons that grasses evolved (they can thrive in low CO2 conditions).
Do you have a link (site) for that graph? I’d love to have it to pass around.
“Iron fertilization is contentious because it is associated with geoengineering, a set of proposed strategies for counteracting global warming through the deliberate manipulation of the environment. Many experts have argued that scientists should be researching such geoengineering techniques like spewing compounds into the atmosphere to reflect more sunlight or using sophisticated machines to remove carbon dioxide from the air. UNQUOTE”
I thought the way to fix global warming was to take American taxpayer dollars and give them to 3rd world tinpot dictators in exchange for letting US companies to continue to pollute the environment and call it CO2.
It’s from “Watts Up With That?” — the article comes with other graphs too, as well as a clear explanation.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/
Bookmark.
Most people don’t know this idea has been around at least 25 years. It waspromoted as far back as the 80s, by a guy who said “give me half a tanker of iron ore and I’ll give you a new ice age”.
Oh brilliant. Wouldn’t you know it...
BTW: Thanks for the mention.
I wonder if these idiots understand what an ice age would do to us. It would destroy the United States ability to be the world’s leader in agriculture. Starvation would result.
It would probably hit Europe worse than us.
I bet they were outraged .... they hadn’t been advised in advance so they could prepare the results of the experiment in advance .... global warming for sure!
I worked in a shop that had a MSDS for “Iron Castings” saying it was a hazardous material.
thanks
I thought the way to fix global warming was to take American taxpayer dollars and give them to 3rd world tinpot dictators in exchange for letting US companies to continue to pollute the environment and call it CO2.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
One is rampantly exploitivly free and the other is fascist. But who wants extremes? Only the liberal fascists who propel situations into desperate polarization as imposed dialectic principle. So we trade one exploitaion for another based on Utopian mental masturbation about the sky falling a la chicken little, designed to destroy freedom? Eff the greens and all they stand for. I ‘ll take benevolent capitalism any day.
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