Weatherbird II, the research vessel of the profit-making company is currently sailing to the Galapagos Sea to seed an area larger than Puerto Rico with tonnes of iron, to stimulate the CO2 sequestration into [...] oceanic food web. When the algae and animals die a small fraction of the organic material sinks to the sea floor where it is eventually buried and stored in sediments for millions of years.
Over the last decade [...] Biological Option: Seeding the Oceans with Iron
“Give me a half tanker of iron, and I will give you an ice age”. This was the inflammatory words from the American oceanographer John Martin who, for the first