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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6882)4/4/2009 1:27:56 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 86356
 
Well, FWIW, he includes the following essays in his bibliography:

1988 John H. Martin and S.E. Fitzwater, "Iron Deficiency limits phytoplankton growth in the north-east Pacific Subarctic." Nature 331: 341-43.

1990 John H. Martin, "Glacial-Interglacial CO2 Change: The Iron Hypothesis." Paleoceanography 5: 1-13.

1996 Kenneth H. Coate, et al., "A Massive Phytoplankton Bloom Induced by an Ecosystem-Scale Iron Fertilization Experiment in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean." Nature 383: 495-501.

2000 Philip W. Boyd, et al., "A Mesoscale Phytoplankton Bloom in the Polar Southern Ocean Stimulated by Iron Fertilization." Nature 407: 695-702.

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No one can include everything--there is just too much. I know that you believe that the Iron Hypothesis is one simple and potentially very effective answer to the carbon problem. I've encouraged you in the past to write to places like Woods Hole and a German group (I forget the name offhand) that has done some experiments on it to find out more about why that approach hasn't been pursued more and what problems have been encountered. I can't claim to know the answer myself. It does seem on the face of it like an elegant way to get CO2 out of the atmosphere and to the bottom of the ocean. I just know what I've read--that people have done experiments with it and have found it to be problematic.
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