27 Jun 2007
World Wildlife Fund warns against plan by Planktos, Inc.

Somebody oughta remind these people of a saying my mother ingrained into me: sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

World Wildlife Fund today announced its opposition to a plan by Planktos, Inc. to dump iron dust in the open ocean west of the Galapagos Islands. The experiment seeks to induce phytoplankton blooms in the hopes that the microscopic marine plants will absorb carbon dioxide.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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