Hi Folks, The other approach to "international cooperation with a common goal" is to devise commercial schemes which meet food production needs which also have GE qualities. That opens up a number of seats at the table.
One area I've been researching is the propagation/harvesting of organic fish feed which can be grown in the warming Arctic lakes. Copepods<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470277522.ch18/summary> fit this need nicely and the basic engineering work seems rather straightforward. Further, the natural entomological production in the tundra has the potential to supply massive amounts of 'organic' feed for many of our farmed animals. The open ocean production of ice can also benefit from this type of 'lateral project'. If pumping is used to thicken sea ice, it will naturally bring up the nutrients needed to produce an increase in the microbial loop and thus propagate large supplies of organic feedstock for the global aquaculture industry. The issue of sub-thermocline DIC has been raised in past posts and it is an issue which would need to be studied and addressed. *However, keep in mind that the Arctic ocean has little, if any, thermocline.* I suspect Arctic marine fertilization (through pumping and as a byproduct of ice engineering) would be overall environmentally positive. There is a crises concerning the quality of the feed being used in aquaculture and the demand for 'organic' feed stock is global in scale as is our need to address the Arctic situation. Why not engineer for both? Best, Michael On Thursday, June 27, 2013 11:25:50 AM UTC-7, Ron wrote: > > The July-August issue of Foreign Affairs has a lengthy article (pp 76-89) > on the Arctic by Scott Borgerson. Title: "The Coming Arctic Boom." > > Zero mention of climate and geoengineering, save this phrase in bottom > paragraph of p 78: > " ....Arctic warming is a fait accompli...." > > Ron > > > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
