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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: greenspirit who wrote (20548)2/20/2008 1:44:15 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 36921
 
Yeah.. I still believe that John Martin is deserving of a Nobel prize for science.

He made us rethink the process regarding the "biological pump" that is responsible for seqestering CO2 within the oceans depths.

Now, granted, there are unknown issues regarding Oceanic Fertilization (OF) since it requires certain types of phytoplankton which are more inclined to sink to the depths after they die (whereas others decay on the ocean's surface and create Methane, an even more potent GG).

But even there, there are potential solutions, such as the use of oceanic Salps to graze on excess phytoplankton blooms. Salps literally have few predators, and their feces and bodies generally sink to the depths. Thus, they could provide the ultimate control mechanism in ensuring that fertilized phytoplankton blooms are removed and deposited to the ocean floors.

I'm not saying that all the questions have been resolved. But the research MUST be continued and accelerated. The logic is implicit, as well as imperative. If we've disrupted the natural OF process by implementing soil conservation in our agricultural policies, then we have an obligation to mitigate that disruption.

I find it rather ironic that, by believing we were preserving mother nature from her own atrocious forces of erosion, we actually set in motion an even greater environmental disruption.

Hawk
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