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Originally Posted by CraigD
Though I didn’t originate the idea, fertilizing phytoplankton with additional nutrients (particularly iron, particularly in the far-south Pacific) strikes me as a promising approach.
The carbon-sequestering capacity of these plants is huge, and largely constrained by their nutrient supply.
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Fascinating idea.
How would it be done in practice?
What about sewerage? Would that be a good, cheap, plentiful solution?
One problem with DDT(and similar) is that it floats on the top micron of the water and interferes with phytoplankton's reproductive capacity.(See
DDT sould it be used (sic) Thread). Because of this (floating) you need very little DDT (etc) to do a lot of damage as the chemical is kept 'cheek by jowel' with the phytoplankton (Multiply area of sea surface by one micron then throw in trillions of tons of DDT type compounds==?)
I was amazed to read that phytoplankton are our major source of oxygen so you wonder what contribution DDT has, and is, making to global warming.(?)
Phytoplankton seems to be 'Below the Radar' of most Earth Scientists.
