An American businessman is under fire after dumping 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Canada under the guise of a geoengineering experiment.
Russ George, who claims to be the world's leading "champion" of geoengineering, created an artificial plankton bloom around 10,000 square kilometres across -- so large it was visible from space. His hope was that the plankton would absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, die, and then sink to the sea bed.
By: Duncan Geere,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/20/plankton-bloom
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