Sentences with phrase «ocean fertilization»

Indeed, the global study of Dr. Lutz and colleagues suggests that greatly enhanced carbon sequestration should not be expected no matter the location or duration of proposed large - scale ocean fertilization experiments.

Physicist David Keith of the University of Calgary in Canada «welcomes» the effort but called Leinen's nonprofit «nontransparent and appears to be closely tied to Climos, which was conceived to do ocean fertilization for profit.

The findings of Dr. Lutz and colleagues coincide with and affirm this month's decision of the London Convention (the International Maritime Organization body that oversees the dumping of wastes and other matter at sea) to regulate controversial commercial ocean fertilization schemes.

After that come a bunch of ocean fertilization schemes, using phosphorous, nitrogen and iron, all of which offer something in the region of 0.1 - 0.2 W / m ².

Given all of the risks and limitations, why has the idea of industrial scale ocean fertilization not been summarily dismissed?

He has been attempting to commercialize such ocean fertilization efforts for years, including setting up the failed company Planktos.

«My only concern about this meeting is that the convening organization, [Climate Response Fund] is nontransparent and appears to be closely tied to Climos which was conceived to do ocean fertilization for profit,» Keith wrote.

This connects ocean fertilization in Haida Gwaii with debates about other geoengineering technologies and with wider cultural meanings and literatures that consider the human relationship with nature.

Old Masset village on the Haida Gwaii Islands off the British Columbia coast did this by contracting George and others to initiate the largest such intentional ocean fertilization effort to date.

While I am happy to see profit - driven startups drive innovation, I think tying ocean fertilization to carbon credits was a sterling example of how not to govern climate engineering.»

Until now, the impact of ocean fertilization from the demise of giant icebergs, defined as floating chunks of ice longer than 10 nautical miles (18 kms) or almost the length of Manhattan, had been judged small and localized.

But he acknowledges that governments, wary of controversy, have shied away from funding further ocean fertilization projects, and he's skeptical of corporate efforts to support them, fearing a lack of scientific objectivity.

Anchored in notions of place and identity, the HSRC marks a novel entry point into social research on geoengineering, which enables a more situated engagement with ocean fertilization, in keeping with geographical traditions.

Organizers of a controversial ocean fertilization project off Canada's west coast said officials knew of the undertaking but did not stop it, and that it violated no laws.

In addition to this excellent RC article, there is another good review of this issue by Chisholm, Falkowski and Cullen (Sci 2001) available in pdf form: Dis - Crediting Ocean Fertilization, Sci 2001.

That in turn could spur more ocean fertilization.

Can ocean fertilization really help combat climate change on any significant scale?

Despite the Haida project's problems, Riedijk says that ocean fertilization merits further research: «If this actually does work, it does have global implications.»

However, an «inconvenient truth» for proponents of ocean iron fertilization is that stimulation of phytoplankton blooms is only the first step in any successful ocean fertilization effort.

A few, like ocean fertilization, appear ecologically disruptive, but most of them aren't.

The study said the giant icebergs had an outsized impact in promoting ocean fertilization when compared with small icebergs.

-- Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment (SOFeX)-- The basics of the most recent expedition — Penny Chisholm's site, which lists many professional papers — Paul Falkowski's article (PDF document)-- DOE article: Climate Change Scenarios Compel Studies of Ocean Carbon Storage — Government site for carbon sequestration research — An earlier piece Williams wrote on sequestration — Will Ocean Fertilization To Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere Work?

To date none of the major ocean fertilization experiments have verified that a significant amount of deep ocean carbon sequestration occurs.

Together with commercial operators they plan to go ahead with large - scale and more permanent ocean fertilization experiments and note that potential negative environmental consequences must be balanced against the harm

According to Dr Lutz «The limited duration of previous ocean fertilization experiments may not be why carbon sequestration wasn't found during those artificial blooms.

During the Ocean Iron Fertilization meeting Dr. Hauke Kite - Powell, of the Marine Policy Center at WHOI, estimated the possible future value of ocean fertilization at $ 100 billion of the emerging international carbon trading market, which has the goal of mitigating global warming.

«All States have an obligation to protect and preserve the marine environment and to ensure that all activities carried out under their jurisdiction and control, including marine scientific research and commercial ocean fertilization activities do not cause pollution.

«Ocean fertilization schemes, which resemble an artificial summer, may not remove as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as has been suggested because they ignore the natural processes revealed by this research».

«Determining the local effects of iron fertilization against the background of natural variations is difficult, and impacts on fisheries, ocean biota and carbon cycling harder still,» wrote members of the In - Situ Iron Studies Consortium — an international group of scientists studying such ocean fertilization — in a letter to the Guardian newspaper, which first reported on the Haida experiment.

«While I am happy to see profit - driven startups drive innovation, I think tying ocean fertilization to carbon credits was a sterling example of how not to govern climate engineering, and I am therefore concerned to see a closely linked organization at the center of a meeting on governance.

Not surprisingly, low - cost, high - impact options including ocean fertilization and SRM present more serious drawbacks in terms of ecological risk, institutional capacity, and ethical concerns.

The international London Convention antidumping treaty is working on specific rules for ocean fertilization techniques.

Andrew Parker of the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government told the New York Times that George's actions had apparently violated an international convention on ocean dumping and a U.N. convention on ocean fertilization for geoengineering purposes, along with a set of voluntary principles on geoengineering developed at Oxford.

These issues are particularly acute with commercial ocean fertilization.

This paper considers the practicalities, opportunities and threats associated with one of the earliest proposed carbon - removal techniques: large - scale ocean fertilization, achieved by adding iron or other nutrients to surface waters.

This paper describes an opportunistic case study of the 2012 Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation's (HSRC) ocean fertilization project.