https://www.nature.com/news/iron-dumping-ocean-experiment-sparks-controversy-1.22031 "The Oceaneos Marine Research Foundation of Vancouver, Canada, says that it is seeking permits from the Chilean government to release up to 10 tonnes of iron particles 130 kilometres off the coast of Coquimbo as early as 2018. But Chilean scientists are worried because the organization grew out of a for-profit company, Oceaneos Environmental Solutions of Vancouver, that has sought to patent iron-fertilization technologies. Some researchers suspect that the foundation is ultimately seeking to profit from an unproven and potentially harmful activity." GR - Hmmm, haven't more than a few companies profited from fertilizing land biology, and haven't more than a few billion people benefited from the food produced? Where's the outrage here? "The Oceaneos foundation, …..has accused the scientists of improperly classifying its work as geoengineering, rather than ocean restoration. Oceaneos president Michael Riedijk says that his team wants to work with Chilean scientists and will make all the data from its experiment public. The foundation plans to hold its own forum later, but if scientists aren’t willing to engage, he says, “we’ll just move on without them”. GR - Given present circumstances, any herculean attempt at supporting 7+B people on Earth and/or restoring Earth to it's former glory would seem to fall in the realm of "geoengineering", so shouldn't we investigate ways of doing this as safely and sustainably as possible? Why is 70% of the Earth's surface necessarily off limits in this effort? Iron fertilization may be a bad idea, but it would seem important to find out for sure, together with a lot of other ideas for managing the ocean and the planet. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
