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Oh, how I love these handwaving arguments. You don't think that a huge algal bloom in our oceans, a prime protein source for billions of people, will not have
by sveme 7y ago
Oh, how I love these handwaving arguments.
You don't think that a huge algal bloom in our oceans, a prime protein source for billions of people, will not have an effect on the life in the ocean? Just one of a plethora of inadvertent effects that would need to be thoroughly studied...
- dr_dshiv 7y agoStudied by testing the effects, I assume? A large contingent don't want this research done because it may point to a technological solution, reducing political pressure of reducing emissions.
- Buttons840 7y ago"Good news! We found out how to have far greater control of the environment. This will allow us to fix the environment we already had control of and completely ruined!" They have a point I think.
- imtringued 7y agoIf humans are willing to damage the climate for a profit they are also willing to damage other things for a profit.
- dr_dshiv 7y agoHere is a recent article on the topic: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-ocean-iron-aerosols-fertilise-science-david-king-a8988241.html https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-oce...
- galangalalgol 7y agoThey talk about how little carbon is actually sequestered. I assumed it was actually none. The goal was actually to make large swaths of ocean reflective. At IR algae mats are almost as white as snow.