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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (187225)	5/24/2006 4:22:06 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the report... And like I figured (having quickly breezed through it), NOT ONE WORD about using Oceanic fertilization to promote CO2 sequestration by Phytoplankton.. 90% of the world's oxygen supply is provided by oceanic flora. Which means that the same flora is responsible for a huge percentage of C02 sequestration. But not one mention of that, even as a temporary solution. Yet, it is the one potential near term application that could have a nearly IMMEDIATE IMPACT upon C02 levels, as well as promoting basic food chain augmentation for marine life. Kill two birds with one stone.. Use Oceanic fertilization as a temporary "stop-gap" measure to mitigate, or even retard, C02 increases, and feeding the fish and the whales to ward off the effects of over-fishing. This is the difference between people like me and you. I'm a pragmatist. I see a pragmatic solution which appears to have few immediate negatives, and which can readily be terminated by ceasing the fertilization, and is relatively low-cost. But the scientific community has to promote solutions that have obvious detrimental economic impacts and which may not have an impact for years to come. All we have is "fear-mongering" about man engaging in geo-engineering, when it's clear that mother nature is very adept at undertaking its own form of it via volcanology, tectonic releases of methane hydrates, and foreign bodies plunging into the planet. Hawk