[Coral-List] Fertilizing the ocean with iron to remove CO2

[Charles Booth]

Dear Melissa,
You are remembering correctly ­ it was John Martin of the Moss Landing
Marine Laboratory who suggested (tongue-in-cheek, apparently) that given a
shipload of iron ore he could bring on another ice age. A lot of scientists
took him seriously and started looking at iron-limitations to primary
productivity in the tropical Pacific.  Here are a few references on this:

Report Nixes "Geritol" Fix for Global Warming
LESLIE ROBERTS
Science 27 September 1991 253: 1490-1491

Iron Fertilization: A Tonic, but No Cure for the Greenhouse
Richard A. Kerr
Science 25 February 1994 263: 1089-1090

The Effects of Iron Fertilization on Carbon Sequestration in the Southern
Ocean
Ken O. Buesseler, John E. Andrews, Steven M. Pike, and Matthew A. Charette
Science 16 April 2004 304: 414-417

Dis-Crediting Ocean Fertilization
Sallie W. Chisholm, Paul G. Falkowski, and John J. Cullen
Science 12 October 2001 294: 309-310

The Effects of Iron Fertilization on Carbon Sequestration in the Southern
Ocean
Ken O. Buesseler, John E. Andrews, Steven M. Pike, and Matthew A. Charette
Science 16 April 2004 304: 414-417

Mesoscale Iron Enrichment Experiments 1993-2005: Synthesis and Future
Directions
P. W. Boyd, T. Jickells, C. S. Law, S. Blain, E. A. Boyle, K. O. Buesseler,
K. H. Coale, J. J. Cullen, H. J. W. de Baar, M. Follows, M. Harvey, C.
Lancelot, M. Levasseur, N. P. J. Owens, R. Pollard, R. B. Rivkin, J.
Sarmiento, V. Schoemann, V. Smetacek, S. Takeda, A. Tsuda, S. Turner, and A.
J. Watson
Science 2 February 2007 315: 612-617

Chuck Booth
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Dr. Charles E. Booth
Dept. of Biology
Eastern Connecticut State University
Willimantic, CT  06226

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