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Geoengineering: Does Dumping Iron in the Ocean Sequester CO2

blog.wired.com — If we made made the globe warm, we can make the globe cool. That's the premise and promise of geoengineering, the name given to intentional attempts to alter the climate.

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  • inactive, on 02/19/2008, -0/+1i'm gonna digg this down because it reads like your saying we should stop giving a ***** about the environment and just let things take their course. i disagree, we don't necessarily need to do anything on a global scale, but we do need to change our habits, and the habits of business so that we can be more environmentally friendly. also, i'm not really an advocate of the whole 'global warming is coming and its gonna kill us all' mentality, though the earth appears to be getting warmer, this happens throughout history, even without us doing it. we need to change our habits to keep the earth clean.
  • inactive, on 02/19/2008, -0/+1To stop global warming we just need to start dropping a giant ice cube into the atlantic on a yearly basis to cool the oceans down.
  • TheOneTrueGod, on 02/18/2008, -1/+2Do not support "geoengineering". Do not give them money. Do not vote for them. Do not spread their idea.

    Let me use the example of river regulation: To ease navigation (the travelling of ships) on rivers, humans were digging to make them more straight. As a result, the water was travelling to fast causing floods. That again had to be fixed with dams.

    Pants need fixing. You cut the left leg - oh, not perfect. Cut the right leg again. Oh, too short. Cut left leg again. And so on.

    The humans still have not understood that they *can not* grasp the complexity of their ecosystem. It is impossible. You want to give the wellbeing of the human race into the hands of a few apes who say they can fix the world by puring stuff into the oceans or blowing it into the sky? Do not do that!

    Trust in nature to fix the problem. Hence - don't burden it furtherly until it has grown to keep the humans.

    Do not fix nature. You can only break it.
  • CraigMac, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1Recently researchers said ocean fertilisation is a no-go:

    http://www.celsias.com/2007/11/30/ocean-fertilisat ...

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