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Pumping nutrient rich water from the deep ocean to the surface is one proposed way of increasing ocean productivity to repair fish stocks and sequester carbon.
by opwieurposiu 7y ago
Pumping nutrient rich water from the deep ocean to the surface is one proposed way of increasing ocean productivity to repair fish stocks and sequester carbon.
This volcano has provided a natural demonstration of this effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_fertilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_fertilization
- LorenPechtel 7y agoFish, yes, but it doesn't help with global warming. The problem is that while you sequester a lot of carbon you end up converting some of the carbon from CO2 to CH4--and that's a much stronger greenhouse gas.
- twic 7y agoCould you by any chance point me towards any solid quantitative studies of that? The Wikipedia page mentions it in passing, but the reference is pretty unsatisfying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_fertilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_fertilization