‘Geoengineer To Fight Climate Change’ Says New York Times.

Raw Egg Nationalist

Governments must invest in “geoengineering” – deliberate schemes to toy with Earth’s climate – according to an essay in the New York Times. A rise in greenhouse-gas emissions, despite America’s cutting down of its coal use, means a narrow focus on reducing emissions is destined to fail, claim the three authors of the essay: a former director at MIT, a retired NASA scientist and an oceanographer.

The authors advocate seeding the oceans with iron dust to encourage the growth of enormous algal blooms, which would convert large amounts of carbon dioxide to organic forms of carbon that would then be sequestered in the watery depths. They also suggest iron dust has dramatic potential to alter the earth’s climate, and may have played an important natural role in doing so in the past.............‘To Read More.