vadka dosing the ocean!

[addicted2reefin]

as long as we can reduce what we are doing, the ocean will level itself out. if we stop [profanity] with mother nature and give herself some time to recover everything. we created the problems, and we need to stop aggressive solutions, as we as a human race oversee consequences of our actions. the ocean has its own natural filtration methods, as long as we stop our import of nutrients to the ocean, everything will balance out.

 

[KarlBob]

Yup. Unfortunately, we get so locked in our ways of doing things, that we start thinking "Oops, X caused unintended consequences, but if I start Y to mitigate X, then I can continue X," rather than "Oops, X caused unintended consequences. I'll stop doing X, and let the system recover."

Sometimes the thought process is also "X has pushed the system so far out of whack that I can't wait for it to recover naturally. Y will give it a push back toward the original conditions."

Not to mention the effects of money and influence...

 

[ctenophors rule]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15486059#post15486059 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by addicted2reefin
as long as we can reduce what we are doing, the ocean will level itself out. if we stop <font size="1" color="#0000FF">profanity removed</font> with mother nature and give herself some time to recover everything. we created the problems, and we need to stop aggressive solutions, as we as a human race oversee consequences of our actions. the ocean has its own natural filtration methods, as long as we stop our import of nutrients to the ocean, everything will balance out.

how can we stop "profanity removed" with mother nature? lol, i couldn't help myself.

i like where u are going with this, but how do we stop importing nutrients into the ocean?

 

[ctenophors rule]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15485258#post15485258 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by KarlBob
As I understand things, the project with the most direct potential to affect pH is not the iron seeding, but the idea of storing CO2 in liquid form at the bottom of the ocean. Supposedly, deep ocean pressures and temperatures are in the right range for CO2 to remain a liquid. There's some question, however, whether some of the liquid CO2 at the boundary layer might dissolve into the water.

If some of the liquid CO2 intended for storage dissolved into the ocean, instead, it could draw down the pH of the ocean. It wouldn't take a very large pH change to really mess with coral growth, shell formation of molluscs, crustaceans, etc.

i thought that the co2 was brought down by heterotrophs that ate the autotrophs that used the co2 in photosynthesis...are u saying that the co2 becomes liquid and floats out of the dead bodies of these orgaisms?