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[theweaselking]

"Hungry shrimp eat climate change experiment "

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[geekalpha.livejournal.com]

This is the cool thing about science. The experiment might not do what it was intended to do, but there is an unrelated problem it might help with: exhaustion of fishing stocks.

Increasing the delectable population at the lowest level of the food chain should increase the populations of higher animals in the biosphere, very possibly including the populations of animals we like to see on our plates which have suffered from overfishing.

Ocean dead zones

[frith]

Perhaps it's just as well that copepods ate this algal bloom. Algal blooms are cited as the cause of oceanic dead zones such as the ones growing ever larger in the Caribbean. Ref: http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/oceancolor/scifocus/oceanColor/dead_zones.shtml

[geekalpha.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

Science is hard.

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

I can easily see some iron sprinkling as a way to increase the biomass, but it was always a dubious way to fix the spiking CO2 content. There are better ways, like wasting less energy, using more renewables, and planting trees. The trees have the benefit that we can burn them again if we overshoot the target at some future point in time.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Personally I like the idea of sequestering stalkage from Big Corn as a means of carbon draw-down... I don't remember the numbers on it, but it'd be a bigger contribution towards dealing with GHGs than that stupid fuel-alcamohol [stet] plan the Lesser Shrub put into place.

-- Steve's wondering if that iron sprinkling could be used to help replenish cod stocks on the Grand Banks... and if maybe we could subsidise the Big Three by grinding up old cars to provide the iron. (Kidding on the latter. Honest.)