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To: palmer

why does ‘dumping” anything into the sea by the ton raise the idea of “unintended consequences”?


8 posted on 06/21/2010 3:27:03 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: silverleaf

why does ‘dumping” anything into the sea by the ton raise the idea of “unintended consequences”?
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20 years from now we’ll be hearing about oxygen levels being too high and this will be blamed...


11 posted on 06/21/2010 3:29:38 AM PDT by Neidermeyer
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They had to kill the ocean to save it.

Scientists, however, have admitted that fertilising the ocean with hundreds of tonnes of iron could have a negative impact on marine life because the dying phytoplankton would cause a reduction in oxygen.

14 posted on 06/21/2010 3:34:24 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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