Stuart

So Long And Thanks For All The Fish From The Restored Ocean Pasture

The flagship German research vessel of the European Union and her science crew of 50 scientists from Germany, India, and around the world departed from their Southern Ocean pasture a day or so ago. The ship and her dedicated scientists had prescribed and on January 27th administered 10 tonnes of iron to a several hundred sq. kilometer patch of ocean. The iron was just the tonic the ocean needed and within days a verdant ocean pasture began to bloom. Ocean satellites picked up an image of the bloom on Valentines Day, what better gift for Mother Earth, than her ocean restored and growing nutritious plankton for every form of sea life from tiny krill to the great whales and everything in between fish, penguins, seals, and seabirds.

Which of these blooms is not like the other?
Image source http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The project, years in planning, had run into a brief tempest and delays whipped up by the spin of dark green organizations as it was about to begin. Claims that the work would be in violation of some mysterious laws, were quickly proven to be false. Those spinning the claims were the same dark greens who in many statements have declared that they are against mitigation of climate changing CO2 that involves the production of carbon offset credits. As EU president Vaclav Klaus stated earlier this week, “Environmentalists are less concerned about any crisis posed by global warming than they are eager to command human behavior and restrict economic activity.” The EU president has that right even though his skepticism on the topic of global warming, wrought by the obvious casting of the topic as a political fodder by the dark greens, is ill advised. He’s hardly alone in his choosing to oppose the idea of climate change when faced with such obvious politicization of the important topic. More intelligent and caring leaders prevailed in Germany reversing a nefarious order by German environment minister that threatened to stop the project as the ship arrived in mid January in the Southern Ocean.

Ocean replenishment and restoration as proven possible by this experiment might remove seven times as much CO2 from the air as the Kyoto Protocol calls for. The oceans pastures have been decimated by high CO2 resulting in billions of tonnes of lost plant life in just a few decades. Replenishing the mineral micro-nutrients, esp. iron, can restore those pastures and turn billions of tonnes of CO2 into ocean life instead of acidifying ocean death.

Here at Planktos Science we are tickled green that the LohaFex ocean replenishment and restoration project has gone so well. The tonnes of iron replenished are now growing what will be millions of tonnes of plankton biomass which in turn will produce hundreds of thousands of tonnes of krill and other zooplankton. The next step on that food chain are the baby calves of the Southern Ocean Great Whales as the new pasture is within their traditional nursery. The food chain formula tells us to expect tens of thousands of tonnes of whales being nourished from this wonderful gesture led by Chief Scientists Victor Smetacek and Wajih Naqvi, our most heartfelt thanks to you both. For more information on ocean replenishment and restoration visit http://www.planktos-science.com

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We need to be realistic on the subject of Global Climate Change

There are several points of clarification I would like to make to your presentation, which, I must say, is generally accurate and up to date. The elements of sudden climate change are generally misrepresented in the current popular literature. This is NOT a man-made condition. The real problem is deep sea methane bubbling up from continental shelves all around the globe.

First consideration is the source of Methane. Anything that has grown, from yard clippings to a decaying body, produces methane as it decomposes. Methane from permafrost is a decay product. Methane from the deep ocean (methane hydrate) is totally different. Methane from oil wells is yet a different composition. These must be recognized as such and understood as to their manner of existence, production, and/or release.

Deep sea Methane appears to be the waste product of a bacterial process, and therefore, is a renewable resource! It is a relative clean product of our environment and it has recently been produced in commercial quantities by Japanese scientists in Canada.

Oil well Methane is a very dirty gas — it is methane with huge amounts of sulfur and other noxious gases mixed with it.

The Methane ” bubbling up from Undersea Permafrost” is a decay product.

Next — Drastic Global Climate Change has taken place at least five different times during the last 400,000 years. Our present cycle is the only one during which man has been a factor.

Methane gas which bubbles up continuously from the deep ocean sources (which in turn disassociates into CO2) is the true source of the “Greenhouse Gas” that has operated in the previous five interglacial cycles — all of which have been extinction cycles.

These are NOT man made effects, and it IS TOO LATE to change our present cycle, We can only learn to adapt!

REFERENCES:

There are several prime references associated with the material that I have covered, if ever so briefly.

(1) EARTH’S CHANGING CLIMATE. Lecture Series by Dr. Richard Wolfson, the Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics at Middlebury College. This is a six hour video lecture series (12 segments of 30 minutes each) on two DVDs produced by The Teaching Company of Chantilly VA 20151-1232.
http://www.TEACH12.com.

This series covers in-depth detail of the science and methodology of climate change. It is not an advocacy program. Interestingly, Dr. Wolfson does not even mention Methane-Clatherate in this lecture series — knowledge on that subject is almost too new to have been included.

(2) FIRE IN THE ICE. Quarterly Journal , U.S.Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory. Also known as Methane Hydrate Newsletter. Recommended reading is all issues to current issue from about 2000 forward. This is the best of several technical journals devoted to the science of Methane Clatherates.
http://www.netl.doe.gov/about/index.html

(3) HIGH TIDE by Mark Lynas. Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. 10010. ISBN 0-312-30365-3. This well written book clarifies the problems of Global Warming “… The American People have been subjected to one of the most pervasive misinformation campaigns ever undertaken …”

(4) WITH SPEED AND VIOLENCE [Why scientists fear tipping points in Climate Change] by Fred Pearce. Beacon Press; 25 Beacon Street; Boston, MA 02108. © 2007. “We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption”

JCSpilman, Huntsville, AL a.k.a.Shamus12017