On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:45:06AM -0500, Webfairy wrote: >More news you won't get from planehugging globalist sops.
More proof (like her claim that cold fusion is an energy weapon) that Webfairy is a disinformation agent (either knowingly or as a "useful idiot"). Iron enrichment of the oceans is a well-known idea for mitigating global warming by increasing the growth of algae that will then consume a lot more carbon dioxide. Below are URLs for some articles from the first few hits of a google search for iron "global warming" Note the mainstream sources -- National Geographic, Science News, Stanford University, CNN -- and the dates, going back at least to 1995. But Webfairy says it's some kind of secret evil operation, like HAARP. So does Gritzle. Both of them are members of the No-WTC-Planes/Space-Beams/ Video-Fakery/Micro-H-Bombs Disinformation Gang that's trying to sabotage the 9-11 truth movement by associating it with absurdly false claims. Here are the articles, just a few of many: Can Iron-Enriched Oceans Thwart Global Warming? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0609_040609_carbonsink.html Iron versus the Greenhouse Oceanographers cautiously explore a global warming therapy from Science News, vol. 148, p. 220, September 30, 1995 http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/iron.txt Ocean fertilization yields hope, uncertainty for global warming http://archives.cnn.com/2001/NATURE/01/23/paradise.dump/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitigation_of_global_warming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization Mark On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:45:06AM -0500, Webfairy wrote: >More news you won't get from planehugging globalist sops. > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: [911InsideJobbers] What is MOOS - the underwater >equivalent of HAARP >Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 06:39:39 -0700 (PDT) >From: Gritzle70 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >"Iron fertilization" -- this is the underwater >equivalent of HAARP > >The MUSE Project? > >> The goal of the natural iron enrichment >> project to track the evolution of biological >> communities across nutrient-rich upwelling >> fronts encompassed the goals of several other >> MBARI science projects, such as monitoring of >> picoplankton, physics and biology of ocean >> fronts, biogeochemical response to climate >> and ocean variability, and bioluminescence >> measurements. > >> the IRONEX II experiment in 1995. Underway >> mapping of algal species, using DNA probes >> and the Environmental Sample Processing (ESP) >> system developed at MBARI, revealed a major >> bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia australis, a diatom >> that produces toxic domoic acid (Figure 2). >> The toxic species were found in waters low >> in iron suggesting that perhaps they had >> sequestered this element from other species > >> MUSE was only the first step as MBARI embarks >> on a plan to build a network of coordinated >> long-term ocean observatories and assimilate >> the physical, chemical, biological, and >> geological information into coupled >> ocean-atmosphere models. > >http://www.mbari.org/muse/intro.htm >MOOS Upper-water-column Science Experiment (MUSE) > >The MOOS Upper-Water-Column Science Experiment (MUSE) >coordinated (within the framework of MOOS) a number of >upper-water-column science projects, culminating in a >large-scale, multi-institute, multi-disciplinary, >field experiment in Monterey Bay in August, 2000. > >This coordination effort involved broadening the scope >of the MBARI natural iron enrichment experiment to >incorporate additional science projects and additional >observational assets, including AUVs, drifters, >aircraft, gliders, and small boats. > >The goal of the natural iron enrichment project to >track the evolution of biological communities across >nutrient-rich upwelling fronts encompassed the goals >of several other MBARI science projects, such as >monitoring of picoplankton, physics and biology of >ocean fronts, biogeochemical response to climate and >ocean variability, and bioluminescence measurements. > >As the first phase of the MOOS Implementation Plan, >MUSE exemplified the process of converting a set of >science problems into a coordinated interdisciplinary >field experiment from which a set of engineering >requirements emerges. These engineering requirements, >which include platforms, instrumentation, and data >management, will form the basis of a MOOS core system >specification. > >The natural iron enrichment problem, which represents >the core science problem behind MUSE, seeks to assess >the processes that control the transformation of >resuspended iron into iron available to phytoplankton. >These processes occur to a measurable extent across >sediment-rich upwelling fronts. That iron is important >to phytoplankton growth is well known, but to date >only two experiments have tracked (albeit at limited >resolution) the evolution of biogeochemical properties >during iron-induced phytoplankton blooms. > >The MUSE project involved three ships, two aircraft, >two satellites, two AUVs, several drifters, nine >moorings, six gliders, and a host of small boats. The >weather cooperated in the second week of August to >produce a remarkable upwelling event (Figure 1). > >High-resolution (in time and space) surveys with AUVs >and gliders revealed previously unnoticed details of >the complex coastal circulation system during the >fertilization event. > >Iron concentrations increased from ambient values near >one nanomole, while the system was in a relaxed state >prior to onset of upwelling favorable winds, to values >greater than six nanomoles in the core of the upwelled >plume. Iron was lost at a rate of about 40 percent per >day. > >This iron loss rate is similar to that observed in the >deliberate iron fertilization experiment created in >the equatorial Pacific during the IRONEX II experiment >in 1995. Underway mapping of algal species, using DNA >probes and the Environmental Sample Processing (ESP) >system developed at MBARI, revealed a major bloom of >Pseudo-nitzschia australis, a diatom that produces >toxic domoic acid (Figure 2). The toxic species were >found in waters low in iron suggesting that perhaps >they had sequestered this element from other species. > >The information on circulation, chemistry, and >biological consequences was combined to create a >conceptual model for what occurred in Monterey Bay. As >the upwelling-favorable northwesterly winds >intensified, a cold filament tended south-southeast >across the mouth of the bay from the upwelling center >near Point Año Nuevo. > >The aircraft surveys found a warm, dry, atmospheric >jet of comparable scale, previously unobserved, >blowing off the Santa Cruz mountains directly above >the filament. The leading edge of the cold filament >was high in iron and, as it entered the bay, it >appeared to squeeze out water that was high in >phytoplankton and low in dissolved inorganic nitrogen. >The phytoplankton from the bay acted as seed for the >next set of blooms. > >Sufficient iron was supplied by these events such that >algae consumed all of the dissolved inorganic nitrogen >in the coastal zone, but offshore and in areas where >the coastal topography is not conducive to sediment >resuspension, phytoplankton exhibited signs of iron >stress. Residual dissolved inorganic nitrogen was >found in these areas. During relaxation and reversal >of the upwelling-favorable winds, warmer oceanic water >moved shoreward, resulting in accumulation of >phytoplankton in the bay. The cycle was restarted when >the upwelling favorable winds returned. > >MUSE provided tantalizing observations pertinent to >the understanding of coastal upwelling systems. MUSE >was only the first step as MBARI embarks on a plan to >build a network of coordinated long-term ocean >observatories and assimilate the physical, chemical, >biological, and geological information into coupled >ocean-atmosphere models. This long-term effort will >take several years to complete, but as individual >components become available, they will be demonstrated >in coordinated multi-discipinary experiments patterned >after the MUSE model. > >Participating MBARI Groups > >(Any relationship to Hugo Chavez is purely >coincidental??) > >* Chavez/Johnson natural iron enrichment in ocean fronts >* Chavez biogeochemical response to coastal upwelling >* Scholin/DeLong monitoring of picoplankton in ocean fronts >* Robison/Hamner physics and biology of ocean fronts >* Barry/Buck benthic community production under upwelling zones >* Matthews/Davis sampling, estimation, detection of episodic events >* Paull iron from seafloor venting >* Ryan/Chavez frontal processes and vertical flux along filaments >* Haddock/Moline/Widder zooplankton/phytoplankton contribution to >bioluminescence > >Participating AOSN/ICON Groups > > >* Paduan/Shulman (NPS/MSU) modeling of ocean fronts >* Bellingham (MIT/MBARI) AUV development >* Davis (SIO) glider development >* Eriksen (UW) glider development >* Frye/Singh (WHOI) AUV docking >* Preisig/Johnson (WHOI)acoustic communications >* Phoha/Greley (PSU/ARL) data processing >* Chao/Howden (JPL/Goddard) airborne salinity >measurements >
