Recruiting Plankton to Fight Global Warming

[wahlaoeh]

Any thoughts on this? Good or Bad? Will this rendered poorer visibility in the future? Just curious

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/b...ews/Science/Topics/Global Warming&oref=slogin

 

[Charlie99]

You can't do just ONE thing. There are always unintended side effects and consequences, both good and bad.

We don't have a good track record on messing with mother nature, with introduction of non-native species, etc.

 

[DavidPT40]

I'm going to have to take a slightly different viewpoint charlie. Sometimes we can caused negative consequences when we try to manipulate living things, but other times we improve things.

Like David Attenborough says, the Open Ocean is a vast desert. Make a couple of gargantuan algae blooms, and the algae just might sink to the bottom and carry with it a tremendous amount of CO2.

An old professor of mine said that peat bogs used to be massive CO2 traps. But as they are destroyed, maybe algae can replace them.

 

[Thalassamania]

The iron fertilization thing was tested a decade ago and not found effective.

 

[Thalassamania]

Here's another article that suggests iron fertilization will not work