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Topic: Global Warming
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Mon 08/31/09 09:11 PM

Al Gore made a career of global warming .
No global warming and he will be broke .
laugh .


I thought Al would be super rich. I heard him say he invented the internet.

metalwing's photo
Tue 09/01/09 01:31 PM
Edited by metalwing on Tue 09/01/09 02:20 PM
Floaters need not apply


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Promoting the Growth of Salps
A company called Atmocean, Inc. has suggested a plan to stimulate large populations of small gelatinous marine animals called salps, which eat phytoplankton and produce large, heavy fecal pellets. The pellets sink fast, essentially pulling carbon out of surface waters and ferrying it to the depths.

The plan calls for stimulating phytoplankton blooms that, in turn, would spur the proliferation of salps, which can multiply rapidly into dense swarms covering hundreds of square kilometers of ocean. But instead of adding fertilizer to the ocean, Atmocean proposes to bring deep, nutrient-rich water up to low-nutrient surface regions to stimulate phytoplankton blooms—by a novel means. It would place 200- to 1,000-meter (600- to 3,000-foot)- long open-ended, flexible plastic tubes, manufactured by Atmocean, into the ocean, where they would unroll and hang vertically. Surface wave action, aided by one-way valves in the tubes, would pump high-nutrient water to the surface to promote blooms.

The company has tested one tube and planned a larger test of 25 tubes off Bermuda. The plan calls for arrays of thousands of tubes connected with lines, drifting with sea anchors, deployed over most of the world ocean. Atmocean would also generate and make available carbon offset credits.

Objections to the plan center around hazards to shipping and marine life from the tubes and linking lines, as well as the feasibility and legality of deploying such large tube arrays in the world ocean. In addition, salp blooms are unpredictable; their presence alone near the tubes does not guarantee they will bloom. Such ocean manipulations may also change ecosystems in undesired ways.



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Tue 09/01/09 02:47 PM

Al Gore made a career of global warming .
No global warming and he will be broke .
laugh .


He could be behind it then. bigsmile
Yep its all his fault.

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Tue 09/01/09 02:56 PM


Al Gore made a career of global warming .
No global warming and he will be broke .
laugh .


He could be behind it then. bigsmile
Yep its all his fault.

laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh He's certainly full of hot air! :wink:


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