Scientists Will Engineer the Ocean to Absorb More Carbon Dioxide | A research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon dioxide from the air, despite public backlash
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-will-engineer-the-ocean-to-absorb-more-carbon-dioxide/
by silence7
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> But a public backlash against tinkering with natural Earth systems arose in 2012, after American entrepreneur Russ George notoriously dumped 100 metric tons of iron dust off the coast of Canada, partly to bolster salmon fishing.
It shouldn’t be tried in working ecosystems near the coast but in remote large desert areas of oceans where currently almost no life exists.
Ah yes, tinkering on the fly with systems in which we don’t have a full understanding.
Honestly, while models did show that iron fertilization could remove up to 45 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the ocean surface between 2005 and 2100, I believe that the world currently emits more than that in 2 years. It’s nice to think that it will solve things, unrealistic to say it will.
Yeah! Nothing beats pollution, like more pollution.