David The WHOI website you sited https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=34167 confirms my statement -
It has the following list of Unresolved Questions but no answers. The questions were apparently framed in 2007 and the website has not been updated since then. Unresolved Questions Twelve small experiments have shown that blooms of phytoplankton consistently result from intentional addition of iron to the ocean. But the efficacy and ecological impacts of iron fertilization remain uncertain, particularly with larger-scale experiments. If and when a new round of experiments is begun, these questions will be first on the list: - How long will carbon be sequestered in the ocean? - How deep is deep enough to accomplish this? - How can sequestration efficiency be increased? - How does the ocean food web change during and after a bloom? - Which phytoplankton and grazers raise sequestration efficiency? - Which parts of the ocean are best for iron fertilization? - What size and what shaped patch should be fertilized? - How often and how continually should iron be added? - What kinds of currents and surface conditions give the best results? - How can the amount and fate of carbon from a bloom be verified? - How could effects downstream of experiments be detected? - How could the production of other greenhouse gases be monitored? Our answers to some of the questions - - How can sequestration efficiency be increased? By growing only Diatom Algae. - How does the ocean food web change during and after a bloom? For the better, if only Diatom Algae are grown. - How could the production of other greenhouse gases be monitored? Will decrease, if only Diatom Algae are grown. We are promoting use of Diatom Algae to control production and emission of Methane and Nitrous Oxide. regards Bhaskar On Thursday, 7 February 2013 08:30:44 UTC+5:30, David Appell wrote: > > On 2/6/2013 5:51 PM, M V Bhaskar wrote: > > > UN General Assembly Resolution of 2007 - A/RES/62/215 Oceans and the law > of the sea > is available at > http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N07/476/67/PDF/N0747667.pdf?OpenElement > > It says - > > "98. Encourages States to support the further study and enhance > understanding of ocean iron fertilization;" > > No country seems to have implemented this resolution, except for the 2009 > LOHAFEX experiment and the 2012 HSRC private experiment. > > Even today people are opposing, rather than supporting, experimentation > > > On the contrary, the US oceanographic laboratory at Woods Hole has been > studying this issue for years: > > https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=34167 > > David > > -- > David Appell, independent science writer > e: [email protected] <javascript:> > w: http://www.davidappell.com > m: Salem, OR USA > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
