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U.N. Says 'No,' But Climate Hackers Start Large Scale Experiment To Remove Carbon From Air

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A major Indian-German geoengineering expedition set sail this week for the Scotia Sea, flouting a U.N. ban on ocean iron fertilization experiments in hopes of garnering data about whether the process actually does take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and sequester it in the deep ocean, a technique that may help reverse global warming.

[N_Fiddledog]

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"This comes as absolutely no surprise to me," he said. "The confluence of desperation as we see climate disruption hit faster than anticipated,

Huh? Presently the climate is cooling.

Pouring iron into the ocean is dumb. Almost as dumb as that other one they want to try of pouring sulphur into the atmosphere.

[romanP]

Didn't we already pour a bunch of iron into the ocean? I think that event was called the second world war, and it didn't do very much good for the environment.