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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (62)	5/13/2007 8:46:49 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

u are welcome to discuss it as it relates to foreign policy, but dont expect me to participate - my grandparents did not live in a world where anywhere cared about global warming - I'm still here, so I dont care either.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (62)	5/13/2007 10:17:17 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 4152

Wanna stop global warming? Drain the oceans. :-) LOL!! But we also have to recognize that the oceans, or more specifically, the phytoplankton the flourish in the oceans, represent the world's greatest system for sequestering CO2. One of the reasons the oceans might be pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere than it is sequestering is nutrient starvation. There are entire portions of the oceans that are devoid of phytoplantonic life because of lack of iron and silica necessary for diatoms to grow (diatoms are heavy enough to sink to the bottom when they die). The late Dr. John Martin did considerable research into oceanic "fertilization" as a method for increasing the oceans sequestration of CO2. earthobservatory.nasa.gov Additionally, since phytoplankton serve as the fundamental foundation of the oceanic food chain, increasing their number would also increase the quantity of marine fauna (fish). And since we've seem drastic over-fishing of many species of fish, it seems to me that such a policy of promoting phytoplantonic growth would be worthy of international consideration. And were it to have undesired consequences (which I have difficulty forseeing), the solution is pretty simple.. stop fertilizing. There's a foreign policy I think the US should be at the forefront of promoting, if only to assist of avoiding a oceanic "tragedy of the commons". Hawk