Can the antarctic be eco-engineered to save the planet.


	Can the antarctic be eco-engineered to save the planet.

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9-25-2009 4:45 AM

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9-25-2009 6:27 AM

nojosm

Globally we can't agree on anything,it could take years to discuss.CO2 emissions being a prime example

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/84def314-7b8c-413f-b02c-598243ad1982/587C1858-7F74-4A55-81DD-91B20E39EDB4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/can-the-antarctic-be-ecoengineering-to-save-the-planet.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/can-the-antarctic-be-ecoengineering-to-save-the-planet.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/can-the-antarctic-be-ecoengineering-to-save-the-planet.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailygalaxy.com/img/7C949AFC-5E11-4A62-8FE8-EEC783E9AAFD" alt="2009_01_24_5073-mod-closeup-antarctica-scotia-sea-birds" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/can-the-antarctic-be-ecoengineering-to-save-the-planet.html">This past January, German research vessel Polarstern is steamed at full power from Capetown to the Antarctic, where it deployed a cargo designed to re-engineer the local environment as part of an effort to save the planet from pollution</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/can-the-antarctic-be-ecoengineering-to-save-the-planet.html"><P>A global team of scientists added twenty tons of iron sulphate to a nutrient-poor region of the arctic ocean to trigger a local increase in the algae population.  Observation of this short-lived surge in ocean life provided data for larger scale projects.  The oceans and the vast banks of singe-celled life they hold are massive regulators for the ecosystem - learning to control them would be an enormous step forward in environmental engineering.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/can-the-antarctic-be-ecoengineering-to-save-the-planet.html">A UN body recommended that all oceangineering be suspended until a "global, transparent and effective control and regulatory mechanism is in place for these activities", which is a very grand way of saying "Let's never do anything ever</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/587C1858-7F74-4A55-81DD-91B20E39EDB4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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