Rogue Geoengineer Dumps 100 Tons Of Iron Off Canada's West Coast

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“Mad Scientist by the name of Russ George is seeking asylum for his mad scientist Geo-engineer Dumps 100 Tons of Iron off Canada's West Coast”.
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~ George.

What is wrong with him?

SLNuke87,
Russ George just happens to believe the Earth is his and he is currently fixing it and he alone knows best.
He got this idea while watching saturday morning cartoons.
Russ George mother said it was a bad idea and to stay home and clean his room. But Russ George said she is not the boss of him, stopped his feet and barged out of the door.
According from Momma George, she just does not understand that boy, sometimes!!! Oh, and if you see him, tell him, dinner is waiting!! XOXO

Glad I'm on Canada's east coast.

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hopefully rogue scientists don't wreck it before YOU come

There are quite a few articles claiming that the Harper Conservative government knew about this ahead of time, and did nothing.

I'm hoping that he's put in an iron cell soon.

At least he is doing something instead of just theorizing on what could happen. Is doing nothing really better then doing what he did?

If it fails or if it works, then we will have learned something! We don't learn too much of anything by mere talking about it and doing small scale testing because we just can't replicate the exact ocean.

I do not condone this action but I applaud his cojones.

haywall,
There could be a lot of property owners along that coast and fisherman that use that area. If his actions hurt them, do you applaud this too?

His act was not done in a scientific manner, gather data careful to learn from the experience.

Are you sure you really applaud him? What if somebody in your neighborhood does some grand thing -illegally- and causes you to lose you real estate or livelihood; how would you feel then?

Well since there is not a damn thing any of us can do to stop him or anyone else, and since this is far from the worst thing people dump in the ocean, I would like to know one thing. DID IT WORK?

killerT,
"I dump iron in the ocean, I saved the planet, I am a hero in my own imagination". This is idiot thinking.

Suppose today we get a positive response. Well the Earth Oceans are not static and time marches on. Will this always be a positive effect and who pays the price if not today, but in the future if its negative.

I am not opposing the concept of doing this, but it must be done in a scientific manner with coordination of the local governments.

"I AM IRONMAN!" -Russ George

Bloody American coming up here to do his unscientific tests!
"I'm gonna dump a crapton of iron into the ocean which may very well create neurotoxins and ruin the local food chain, better do it in someone elses country. Wouldn't want that **** happening here".

I guess we'll find out later if it worked?

Brain,
Define later.
Once upon a time, in the beginning, Yea the fishing is great! WoWzers!

One or several years later, the bay area fishing habitat is dead.

And the people who at the fish, they got sick and or died too.

This has to be illegal... why is he not under arrest?

While I don't necessarily agree with what he did, i have to ask "Does anyone else ever ask permission before doing things to the Ocean?"

Countless nuclear tests, military drills, sonar tests, oil shipping, international fishing, etc.

Don't see a lot of people answering for those either.

Yes, altering the ocean to generate Federation credits, or space bucks, or whatever that fake monitory system is called.

Joke's on him, the carbon credit travesty will be over before he, a.) successfully ruins enough ocean for the of us to generate enough of these mythical credits or b.) becomes a new artificial reef, out there all alone, making people mad, in the middle of the ocean, where anything could happen.

fwiw it is working as shown by the data from NASA.

Michael316pp, just because there's plankton there now, doesn't mean there was none there before. Good science requires studies before and after you make changes to a system. You can't just dump something into the ocean and be like "oh hey NASA, I started this experiment, can you watch it for me?". That's just not how science is done.

Its iron sulphate. Iron suphate is pumped out by the megaton daily by undersea vents. Its the reason we have giant colonies around the undersea vents. Massive ecosystems exist purely becasuse of the vents. As for acidfying the ocean, experiments to clean it up are not only long overdue, but greatly necessary. Many countries dump all their sewage and industrial waste straight into the river systems, and its totally unmonitored. Dead zones exist on the google earth map where excess fertilizer runoff has killed what would otherwise be a healthy ecosystem. (and fertilizers and pesticides designed for land based plants do not have a good effect on the ocean, it creates unnatural chemical compositions. Life has evolved around the naturally ocurring compositions of chemicals)

You know how science is done? by the people with the balls to deny idiotic researchers, and international conventions created out of fear and influence by corporate peddling. I think they really fear that they will have to pay him for sinking their carbon out of the air.

There have allready been experiments, with zero bad side effects i might add. (lab tests are not an accurate representation of the ocean, how can one say a drop of water is equal to an ocean? there simply isnt the same buffer.) An increase in plankton means more food for the base of the food chain. Properly done it could bring damaged fisheries back from extinction, tuna is nearing endangered status, sharks are at an all time low, perhaps fertilizing the ocean will make it more productive and sink carbon at the same time.

Without research, the corporations of the world could literally kill us all, and render the planet uninhabitable for all except the very rich. The ocean is the reason we have air to breathe, the rainforests are irrelevant for our oxygen production. If the ocean acidifies, we and everything else on the planet are dead. (that's not in a dome) The primary reason for mass extinctions were high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere acidifying the ocean.

Not doing the research is criminal. Piss on the UN, they do nothing while thousands are slaughtered daily, enslave entire countries to their loan programs and are themselves slaves to the corporations that rule them.

Great work george, at least someone is doing something.

Farmers worldwide fertilize farm land with about 100 million tons of N P K fertilizer each year, so what is so surprising or remarkable about fertilizing oceans with 100 tons of Iron. Farmers also use Iron Sulfate in Iron deficient soils and Zinc Sulfate in Zinc deficient soils.

The excess fertilizer used by farmers is entering water (lakes, rivers and oceans) and causing problems, this can be mitigated by using small quantity of Iron and other micro nutrients to maintain the right balance of Macro (N P K) and Micro (Iron, Zinc, etc.) Nutrients in water.

In the greater scheme of things how does that differ from a ship sinking. Iron ore carriers get lost every so often. And we are speaking here of ten thousands of tons. Has the effect ever been studied?

Yes others in the world break the law and pollute our oceans too and this person is one of them.

100 tons of relatively harmless iron sulfate put into the Pacific ocean is nothing. The whale population alone in the NW Pacific ocean excretes many times that weight in feces each and every day.

Okay. This guy has worn out his welcome here on Earth. Time to send him packing. Next stop.
Uranus.

Dkella is right, people hear pollution and condemn even when they don't understand the science involved. At least he is doing something, we need more like him.

Great more rich people doing what ever they want without any real science or idea of what could happen. Can't wait to read next year what happen and how bad it got.

This has to be illegal... why is he not under arrest?

Because he is rich, did you not get the memo, the super wealthy can do about anything and keep on trucking. You really should read your memo's :-)

here come the dead zones, sorry fishermen

If this is so bad then why haven't all those sunken iron ships, megatons of them for hundreds of years now, caused any problems yet? The "Dead zone" in the gulf is not caused by iron. It is caused by fertilizer run off from the Mississippi river. I'd be willing to bet that those here who condemn him are also climate change deniers who don't think "Man" can affect the environment. So how can this guys little 100 tons make such a diff?

Nostradamus predicts a solar event that half cooks fish in a sea.

which sea ....I assume Mediterranean
what day .....I assume Dec 21 2012.

now that is hot. Wild guess is 700 % solar output for 7 days as predicted by Isaiah 30

For those who remember a reminder, and for those who don't know a fact to look up. About 20 to 25 years ago (can't remember the date), a scientist ran this as an experiment, and again without anyones approval. He seeded an area of the Pacific that was considered a dead zone (i.e. too little oxygen in the water) and plankton did grow. This was also an experiment in global climate control. The problem noted at the time was that no one knew or could calculate the effects. This seems to be the same thing but a larger scale. It is gratifying that this time some people worried about the effect of the dumping, since the first time environmentalists loved it.

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