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Y2Kyoto: The Fix Is In
Funding from "impoverished" Old Massett First Nations - $2.5 million.
Volume of iron strewn over the ocean - 120 tonnes
Current benchmark iron ore price - $105.75 a tonne
Multiplying 120 x 105.75....priceless.
Russ George doesn't think small.
He got the Vatican to buy into a venture to reduce its carbon footprint by growing a forest in Hungary.
He sailed off to the Galapagos Islands in 2007 with a grand plan to scatter iron over a large swath of the South Pacific.
And now George is leading the world's largest ocean-fertilization experiment off the B.C. coast, which was widely denounced this week as shoddy science and a violation of international rules.
George is the kind of can-do entrepreneur - or "rogue climate hacker" as he was described this past week - that makes some worry about unauthorized experiments putting the planet at risk.
It's the ocean this time, and the experiment will likely do no serious damage, says Ken Denman, an oceanographer at the University of Victoria. Next time, he says, it could be some multimillionaire or "rogue" country shooting sulphate aerosols into the atmosphere to block incoming solar radiation in a bid to slow global warming.
more eco-shennanigans
The 'rogue climate hacker'
Y2Kyoto: The Fix Is In
Funding from "impoverished" Old Massett First Nations - $2.5 million.
Volume of iron strewn over the ocean - 120 tonnes
Current benchmark iron ore price - $105.75 a tonne
Multiplying 120 x 105.75....priceless.
Russ George doesn't think small.
He got the Vatican to buy into a venture to reduce its carbon footprint by growing a forest in Hungary.
He sailed off to the Galapagos Islands in 2007 with a grand plan to scatter iron over a large swath of the South Pacific.
And now George is leading the world's largest ocean-fertilization experiment off the B.C. coast, which was widely denounced this week as shoddy science and a violation of international rules.
George is the kind of can-do entrepreneur - or "rogue climate hacker" as he was described this past week - that makes some worry about unauthorized experiments putting the planet at risk.
It's the ocean this time, and the experiment will likely do no serious damage, says Ken Denman, an oceanographer at the University of Victoria. Next time, he says, it could be some multimillionaire or "rogue" country shooting sulphate aerosols into the atmosphere to block incoming solar radiation in a bid to slow global warming.
more eco-shennanigans
The 'rogue climate hacker'