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Newsflash: Dumping iron filings into ocean won't reduce CO₂

It had been proposed sometime ago that geoengineering might help fight global warming. One plan in particular that drew a lot of attention was the dumping of hundreds of tons of iron filings into the ocean. Through wave action, the seas absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and the theory went that iron dumping would encourage phytoplankton population growth which would, in combination with zooplankton, take in CO2 and deposit it on the bottom of the briny deep. The originator of the idea, John Martin (1935-1993) once famously declared, "Give me a ... Read more →

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