Sentences with phrase «successful ocean fertilization»

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.

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As researchers concluded in a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, ocean iron fertilization can only prove successful as a climate geoengineering approach if, in addition to phytoplankton bloom stimulation, «a proportion of the particulate organic carbon (POC) produced must sink down the water column and reach the main thermocline or deeper before being remineralized... and the third phase is long - term sequestration of the carbon at depth out of contact with the atmosphere.»

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.