"Scientist Unveils Plan on Climate Change"

SOCORRO, N.M. (AP) - A New Mexico Tech scientist believes he has found a way to head off dangerous climate change. Oliver Wingenter said the idea is simple - fertilize the ocean so that more plankton can grow.

Plankton growing in the ocean emits a gas known as dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, that once in the atmosphere, helps spur cloud formation. That, in turn, would cool the planet and offset some of the global warming caused by human emitted greenhouse gases, he said.

World governments are looking for ways to cut emissions and head off the worst damage such change might cause. Efforts are having limited success, though, so some scientists have begun to advocate counter measures to offset the warming.

Wingenter said his idea has been a tough sell, and it has been a struggle to win funding to further pursue the research.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070820/D8R4V9DG1.html

Yet another scientist who thinks we can diddle a complex chaotic system like the Earth's oceans and get just the result we expect. A scientist who has apparently never heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences or the Butterfly Effect. :banghead:

What does it tell you about our situation when we start grasping at straws like this? It tells me, "Estamos jodidos".

merely as a way for the companies (and people) who do produce CO2 to help fund research for greener power among other things.

the money goes into the pockets of the owners

No one wants to do the hard work of just limiting their own carbon out put, they would rather believe that someone else is doing to for them.

typical american mentality.

He is only the latest in the line of people proposing and/or testing this idea.

We are going to wind up in a very "interesting" petri dish at this rate before it's over..

But that's a difficult thing to do...

HAVE to do it later.

but when have we as a race done any real preventative maintenance? we always wait till the last minute or until it's too late.