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«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.

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.

Ref: The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program developed this website as a clearinghouse of ocean fertilization news and informational resources to: 1) increase public knowledge and awareness on this topic, and 2) advance scientific research to improve our understanding of the implications of ocean fertilization for marine ecosystems.

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During her half - hour of interaction with the class, McNutt said, students asked questions ranging from the feasibility of the OTEC, or Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion — a strategy for harvesting energy from the oceans — to whether deforestation in Africa «might actually have a silver lining if it leads to ocean iron fertilization.&rOcean Thermal Energy Conversion — a strategy for harvesting energy from the oceans — to whether deforestation in Africa «might actually have a silver lining if it leads to ocean iron fertilization.&rocean iron fertilization.»

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

I worked for one of the people who got the ocean fertilization scheme going in the first place, and who was until recently Planktos» CEO.

Take my area of current interest for example: ocean fertilization.

It is a plan for regulating geoengineering schemes classed as solar radiation management rather than carbon dioxide removal, even though ocean iron fertilization experiments have generated most controversy (6, 7, 12).

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.

This report provides a synthesis and analysis of the impacts of ocean fertilization on marine biodiversity, and considers the possible impacts of geoengineering techniques on biodiversity and associated social, economic and cultural considerations, and on gaps in the regulatory mechanisms for climate - related geoengineering relevant to the CBD.

These are places where the ocean chemistry is right for iron fertilization, that is, where there is available nitrogen as nitrate or ammonia, and phosphorus.

Ocean fertilization does not seem to me suitable to be the basis for a reliable financial commodity, or a practical tool for geo - engineering climate.

-- 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?

Kim Stanley Robinson's wildly successful 1993 science fiction trilogy about geo - engineering and terraforming, Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, describes «the fertilization of the Antarctic Ocean with iron dust, which was to act as a dietary supplement to phytoplankton» as a cure for both global warming and dying coral reefs.

Oceaneos makes the case for iron fertilization of the ocean.

Following the SOFeX iron - fertilization experiment in the Southern Ocean, deep - diving Carbon Explorer floats continuously collected data for over a year, straight through the Antarctic winter.

A second general method for cooling the planet involves removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, either via sequestration or CO2 capture, or possibly through ocean iron fertilization to promote the growth of CO2 - consuming algae.

For iron fertilization forcing, we choose temperature − dust relationships from the high southern latitudes, as the Southern Ocean is the main region where this process is relevant.

There is strong evidence for a tight relation of Southern Ocean iron fertilization to this record (30, 31).

Here we took a different approach by seeking and applying dust deposition observations from hotspots for dust radiative and iron fertilization forcing: NH subtropical latitudes and the Southern Ocean.

This allows us to scale the two records by their respective interglacial levels, combine them to better resolve the Southern Ocean, and use the combined record as our proxy for glacial / interglacial iron fertilization forcing.

Shown are (A) dust radiative forcing (RF) anomaly relative to preindustrial and (B) iron fertilization parameter (IF) for ocean new production in the DCESS model (41) high - latitude zone.

Those CDR techniques with the least potential: Biochar («significant doubts» about scope, effectiveness and safety - «substantial research» required to prove effectiveness) and ocean iron fertilization (not proven to be effective and «high potential for unintended and undesirable ecological side effects»).

Like other plants, plankton uses the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide for photosynthesis; thus, theoretically, fertilization could have caused the ocean to take larger amounts of CO2 from the air, and entomb it in the ocean.