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The International Energy Agency believes demand after 2010 is likely to exceed dwindling supplies. Are
any more reasons needed to stop chemtrails and kick our oil addiction? [Independent Aug 3/09]
Geochemist Wallace Broecker believes the “sunscreen” proposal would cost around $50 billion. It could
also cost the planet. Focusing on geoengineering projects like chemtrails subverts other efforts to attain
sensible reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. National Research Council scientists worry that
attempting to offset global warming by deliberate climate modification “could be used as an excuse by
those who would be negatively affected by controls on the human appetite to continue polluting and
using the atmosphere as a free sewer.”
The mercurial Michaelson agrees. “Essentially,” he says, “a Climate Change Manhattan Project seeks to
cure lung cancer with the latest technology, when really the smoker should just quit smoking…
Economists believe a sizable amount of GHG emissions can be reduced quite cheaply. Surely, it is
better to just get used to the idea of ‘living lightly’ than to scatter dust in the sky or seed oceans with
iron, especially when living lightly is good for all of us anyway.”
DEAD ZONES
To revisit another mega-project gone awry, check out the dried-up Aral Sea. Or Iron Ex. Since just one
iron atom can stimulate enough plankton growth to consume approximately 10,000 carbon atoms, an
estimated 430,000 tons of annual iron seeding could theoretically offset the three billion tons of carbon
that humans release into the atmosphere each year.
But there are several problems with this nautical addiction avoidance scheme. First, after taking up
nearly half the CO2 released by us, the interconnected world ocean is just about fully saturated and can’t
absorb much more CO2.
Even worse, as they take up some 20 million additional metric tons of carbon every day, the ocean is
rapidly turning acidic. Unless slowed dramatically by curtailing our land and airborne emission, this
acidification will have dire consequences for plankton that anchor the entire marine food web and
remove more carbon from the atmosphere than all the remaining forests ashore. [earthfiles.com Aug 13/04;
Guardian Nov 25/08]
The second Iron Ex ocean-seeding experiment caused proliferating plankton to gobble tons of additional
atmospheric CO2. But – oops! – these giant plankton blooms also devoured all available sea surface
oxygen, killing the sea life that came to eat them, and leaving “dead zones” of oceanic desert in the
wake of the iron pellet-dispensing ship. Who needed it? There are already more than 30 human-caused
oceanic “dead zones” around the world. Some of these oxygen-deprived zones extend up to 70,000
square kilometers. [BBC; MSNBC Aug12/04]