Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Massive CO2-Sequestration Experiment Now Shrimp-Food!
Ooops. A nice theory, some might say. Others call it "official junk science". And they think cloudbusting or the orgone accumulator are nutty... but when we do our work, the outcomes are far more predictable. Which goes to the fundament of how we gauge a correct versus incorrect scientific theory -- by its accuracy in predictions of outcomes. J.D.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090327-iron-seeding.html
Huge Man-Made Algae Swarm Devoured--Bad for Climate?
Kelly Hearn
for National Geographic News
March 27, 2009
A giant experiment went awry at sea this month.
Shrimplike animals devoured 159 square miles (300 square kilometers) of artificially stimulated algae meant to fight global warming-casting serious doubt on ocean fertilization as a climate-control tool.
For years, scientists have proposed supercharging algae growth by dumping tons of iron into the ocean.
Iron is a necessary element for algae photosynthesis-the process by which the plants convert sunlight into energy-but it is relatively rare in the ocean.
(Related: "Plan to Dump Iron in Ocean as Climate Fix Attracts Debate".)
Algae suck carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, out of the atmosphere. The algae then generally fall to the seafloor-sequestering the CO2 indefinitely.
About a dozen such "iron fertilization" experiments have already been done-with mixed success.
But experts have warned of unintended consequences, such as unpredictable reactions in the ecosystem.
And that's just what happened during a recent, large-scale iron dump in the South Atlantic, the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany announced this week.
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