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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (56476)	8/4/2014 10:51:14 AM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Recommended By teevee Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86363

That's one way of looking at things. Another is that you would have us believe that a 50% increase in CO2 levels (and the associated ocean pH changes) has little impact upon phytoplankton populations. It SHOULD BE having an impact.. That's the problem.. Greenhouses actually increase their CO2 levels to accelerate the growth of plants.. Therefore, a 50% increase in atmospheric CO2 (dissolving into the oceans to make it accessible to phytoplankton) SHOULD be having a similar effect.. But it's NOT. Furthermore, lower PH levels (acidity) actually INCREASES the availability of Iron for botanical life. But that presumes that there is sufficient Iron available in the first place.. HOWEVER, when you add IRON, to facilitate the production of chlorophyll in these Marine Algae, we have incredibly LARGE BLOOMS... This happens DESPITE those claims you make about ocean temperatures decreasing the levels of phytoplankton. It happened NATURALLY when Mt. Pinatubo erupted.. And it certainly happened when Russ George (eccentric and opportunist he may be) and the Haida Indian tribe fertilized the ocean with 100 tonnes of Iron and Iron sulphate.. All, again. DESPITE that report from Nature that claims that ocean temps are reducing phytoplankton levels. Now.. to make another comparison with the Greenhouse operations. If they augmented the CO2 levels in those greenhouses to 1300ppm, but the soil those plants were growing in were Iron deficient, plain logic tells us that the plants would suffer Chlorosis due to an inability to consume that CO2. Read about Liebig's Law: tos.org Hawk