Sentences with phrase «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.

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.

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asks Russ George, chief scientist of the expedition as well as a controversial businessman with a history of attempting to start CO2 - removal schemes ranging from reforestation to 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).

Adding phosphorous to the ocean via existing activities may have greater long - term carbon sequestration potential than iron or nitrogen fertilization schemes.

The IPCC is expected to strongly dismiss geo - engineering schemes and ocean fertilization in particular in the Working group III report on mitigation this week.

However, according to Professor Rosemary Rayfuse, an expert in International Law and the Law of the Sea at the University of New South Wales, Australia, who also attended the Woods Hole meeting, ocean fertilization projects are not currently approved under any carbon credit regulatory scheme and the sale of offsets or credits from ocean fertilization on the unregulated voluntary markets is basically nothing short of fraudulent.