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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult?
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (3423)11/27/2013 12:27:12 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 4326
 
I suspect that the human tendency to control inland water (rivers) also has a big impact on iron distribution to the oceans.
I'm not sure that river borne nutrients play much of a major role in open ocean fertilization. It has been evident that agricultural run-off has led to oxygen depleted dead zones in the estuaries because of the stimulation of non-desirable algal flora.

The problem is getting it thousands of miles off-shore.. And as you stated, Iron is heavy and tends to sink unless it is in an area of upwelling currents (like off of Monterey, California).

But the fact is, the calcium concentration in the oceans has gone down for at least the past 40 years.

I hadn't realized that.. I know that some folks are saying that calcium carbonate is dissolving because of ocean acidification, but if there an actual 40% decrease in elemental calcium quantities in the oceans, it's also a very interesting correlation to the 40% reduction in phytoplankton populations.

Got some links that could confirm it? I've been googling, but may be entering the wrong search criteria..

That's probably enough rambling for now.

Oh.. that was some damn good rambling, IMO.. ;0)

Hawk
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