New Geoengineering Scheme Tackles Ocean Acidification, Too

Here's a bad idea.

You'd have to dump in quite a lot, though. Try 4 billion tons. Per year. Over decades.

Even assuming its ecological side effects are relatively benign (a big "if"), the scheme has little chance of being implemented, according to Ken Caldeira of Stanford University's Carnegie Institution, who described the plan as "unrealistic" and a mere "theoretical possibility."

While we're about it, let's dump several thousand tons of iron filings in the ocean every year to enourage algal growth and sequester yet more CO₂. That's been proposed before too, y'know!

Not only proposed but actually tested.

Hello EnviroMan

That system actually works very well, and is an ecologically sound method.

Kind Regards....

You've just got to ask why Shell Oil is proposing that idea.

There's just got to be money, lots of it, for them, if that nutty scheme goes ahead.

I note that Shell proposes to use "limestone from sites adjacent to gas and oil wells", sites which are under the control of Shell, of course.

Ecologically unsound idea, entirely.

Kind Regards....

The ocean is such a wonderful natural water source. Unfortunately it has a desert within it. Anybody interested in conserving ocean and water, check out in the link below:-

http://www.kanbal.com/index.php?/Latest/ocean-deserts-with-dead-water.html

Reminiscent of "A Horse With No Name"...

After nine days I let the horse run free
cause the desert had turned to sea
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The ocean is a desert with its life underground
And a perfect disguise above
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love