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Professor: Moderately Fertilizing Ocean May Slow Global Warming
(NM) Mountain Mail ^ | 7/10/2008 | Thomas Guengerich

Posted on 07/10/2008 5:37:37 PM PDT by markomalley

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Oh, geez....
1 posted on 07/10/2008 5:37:38 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: xcamel; steelyourfaith

—ping—


2 posted on 07/10/2008 5:39:57 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: markomalley

This is turning into a really bad sci-fi movie! Sheesh!


3 posted on 07/10/2008 5:41:02 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: markomalley

These idiots will screw things up royally. There is no global warming. And even if there were, the Earth would heal itself.


4 posted on 07/10/2008 5:41:12 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: markomalley

These clueless wonders will kill us all.


5 posted on 07/10/2008 5:42:29 PM PDT by decimon
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To: markomalley

Hey Jesse Jackson isn’t busy, let him do the fertilizing...


6 posted on 07/10/2008 5:42:31 PM PDT by RadioCirca1970 (Banner 17!)
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To: markomalley

The multi use of the word “may” in this story raise the BS flag.


7 posted on 07/10/2008 5:43:03 PM PDT by toddlintown (Morons; all of 'em.)
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To: RadioCirca1970
Hey Jesse Jackson isn’t busy, let him do the fertilizing...

No, they need iron, not brass.

8 posted on 07/10/2008 5:44:31 PM PDT by decimon
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To: markomalley

Ummm....... from the standpoint of a former saltwater fishtank owner isn’t nitrogen, which is one of the primary ingredients of fertilizer, pretty much poisonous to fish?


9 posted on 07/10/2008 5:45:01 PM PDT by diverteach (http://foolishpleasurestudio.com/eyewool/slap_hillary.html)
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To: markomalley
The general principle involves seeding the ocean with a liquid slurry of iron sulfide.

The possibilities of upsetting the ecosystem of the ocean are frightening.

We're already cooling down -

Someone has got to stop these buffoons before they cause irreversible "unforeseen consequences" and the devil take the hindmost

Can't make up my mind if their motivation is from colossal hubris or the easy living from all that grant money they hope to generate.

10 posted on 07/10/2008 5:45:56 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a large number of electrons were terrible agitated)
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To: markomalley

We can get a start by sinking the Iranian navy.


11 posted on 07/10/2008 5:46:45 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: markomalley

“Professor: Moderately Fertilizing Ocean May Slow Global Warming”

EyeGuy: Dramatically cutting criminally non-productive “professors” from the taxpayer’s payroll would dramatically improve the American economy.


12 posted on 07/10/2008 5:48:50 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: markomalley

I can’t believe a chemist would buy into this nonsense. In the first place the Antartic ice cap is growing not shrinking. And carbon dioxide is not causing global warming.


13 posted on 07/10/2008 5:49:32 PM PDT by Mogollon ($5/gal Gas....Kick the Jacka$$es Out!)
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To: markomalley

I always get screamed at by idiots for saying this, but these kind of proposals are ultimately a good thing. Spend a couple mil to dump some iron in the ocean? Knock yourselves out.

Better this than subjecting every man, woman, and child in America to the carbon police, the way our politicians seem to want to.


14 posted on 07/10/2008 5:49:35 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: markomalley
Indian scientists say iron fertilization will encourage rapid growth of phytoplankton, microscopic animals that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Mississippi Dead Zone ... Summer rains wash nutrients, dissolved organic matter and sediment out of the mouths of rivers, into the sea, sparking large phytoplankton blooms. .... Enhanced phytoplankton blooms can create dead zones. Dead zones are areas of water so devoid of oxygen that sea life cannot live there. If phytoplankton productivity is enhanced by fertilizers or other nutrients, more organic matter is produced at the surface of the ocean. The organic matter sinks to the bottom, where bacteria break it down and release carbon dioxide. Bacteria thrive off excessive organic matter and absorb oxygen, the same oxygen that fish, crabs and other sea creatures rely on for life.


15 posted on 07/10/2008 5:50:16 PM PDT by Polybius
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New Mexico Tech chemistry professor Oliver Wingenter and his colleagues

Wow, a chemistry professor! Whatever he says must be the absolute proof! All my chemistry professor did at my school was make the head cheerleader pregnant. Professors are cool!

16 posted on 07/10/2008 5:51:48 PM PDT by appleharvey
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I thought that Waterbury Republican published something about temps having dropped by 1 degree F on average today.

If so, seeding, if the effect was synergistic as all the enviros say the environment is, this could bring on the over-due ice age.

THAT would be ironic.

It would be “Day After Tomorrow” in slow mo.

17 posted on 07/10/2008 5:52:55 PM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: rellimpank; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; ...
Thanx !

 



Beam me to Planet Gore !

18 posted on 07/10/2008 5:59:20 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: Mogollon

If scientists would be required to pay for their bad predictions or lame theories without basis with their lives, things would clarify in a generation.


19 posted on 07/10/2008 6:05:11 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Dog breath? I don't think so.)
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To: maine-iac7
Someone has got to stop these buffoons before they cause irreversible "unforeseen consequences" and the devil take the hindmost.

Might be too late. There are probably dozens of covert Government programs being run around the globe in an effort to prevent Global Warming. This past few days, Los Angeles has been 3 to 5 degrees below normal and the MSM idiots had been running around proclaiming a deadly heat wave. Facts mean nothing anymore. All that matters is feelings. So even if the Earth enters a new Ice Age faster then ever due to the covert programs, all will be forgiven since they had their heart in the right place. Unfortunately, their heads were shoved up their, you know what.

20 posted on 07/10/2008 6:19:54 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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