Comments on: Rogue Geoengineer Illegally Dumped Tons of Iron Into the Pacific in July

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:53:01 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if all that condensed iron caused a change in the magnetic field to create huge earthquakes.

The magnetic grid-point is very close to where iron was dumped.

By: Alex H

Alex H — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:50:33 +0000

@ Rupert MacLannahan Not all words in English are made plural by adding an S. Moratorium for example. From dictionary.com :

mor·a·to·ri·um [mawr-uh-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-, mor-] Show IPA
noun, plural mor·a·to·ri·a [-tawr-ee-uh, -tohr-]

Here are some more examples:

Man becomes men
Woman becomes women
Fungus becomes fungi
Thief becomes thieves (note that not all words ending in “f” follow this patttern: roof/roofs)
Species remains species
Medium becomes media
Person becomes people

There are many many more.

By: Blathering Blathiscope

Blathering Blathiscope — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:23:22 +0000

It’s a pretty picture, but it doesn’t really mean anything without a before and after picture with similar weather, ocean currents, rainfall, etc.

Coastal British Columbia has seen the lowest rainfall in recorded history this year. We only recently saw a significant rainfall last week. We have also seen some of the warmest weather extending this late into the season.

So unless you can show a picture with similar conditions before and after, the picture is useless.
This guy should be arrested, as should anyone who assisted knowing they had no permits to dump, which is what it comes down to. I’d like to go to his house and dump twenty five years of human and dog excrement on his yard. As an experiment. See if he likes it.

I won’t though. I don’t save my dogs or my own excrement. Just to be clear. That would be weird.

By: Dionysius John

Dionysius John — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:06:11 +0000

Rupert MacLannahan
No one asked you, Rupert, to be an English Nazi. You’re incorrect in any case as ‘moratorium’ is latinate in origin and, thus, may correctly be pluralized as ‘moritoria.’
Stuff that in your fart pipe, dim wit.

By: wardo

wardo — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:42:53 +0000

In other news, thousands of tons of iron were dumped into the ocean when the Titanic sunk.

By: desotojohn

desotojohn — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:37:12 +0000

Let’s not let this experiment go to waste. Say what you want about the legal issues, the fact is the deed has been done. A research team should be assembled to document the conditions of the test area prior to “fertilization” and the effects it had afterwards.

By: desotojohn

desotojohn — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:06:48 +0000

By: wilzard

wilzard — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:52:22 +0000

@blindboy – thanks for chastising me, and I mean it.

I never did mean that anyone should try practically anything to solve our problems.

What I mean, and what I should have said, was that finally we hear about an experiment to try and restore some of our environment instead of just constant whinging about how bad it is and will be.

I, personally, feel a need to have something done, be proactive, etc – I agree with Jake where he says it should have been much more controlled less dangerous, but also offically sanctioned.

By: John Lerch

John Lerch — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:53:32 +0000

What I don’t get is: If this activity is banned, how can he sell any credits to make money anyway? If they want to ban it, just make sure that no one gets to reap any financial benefit.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:15:45 +0000

I guess it makes me a troll to look at the silver lining here – for better or worse, this is an opportunity to guage the harm caused by ocean fertilization and weigh it with the benefits of carbon sequestration.

Granted, we could have developed a much better controlled and less dangerous experiment…