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Interesting alternative take on the news item around ocean iron fertilization, which is intended to create an algae bloom that's supposed to absorb CO2.

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Reading this article, I was again reminded of Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan's book, Dazzle Gradually, and the Gaia hypothesis. Fascinating to think that the planet is regulating itself - and if it's a sentient organism as proposed, why wouldn't it?
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A team of UK scientists have discovered a natural process that could delay, or even end, the threat of global warming.

The researchers, aboard the Royal Navy’s HMS Endurance, have found that melting icebergs off the coast of Antarctica are releasing millions of tiny particles of iron into the southern Ocean, helping to create huge ‘blooms’ of algae that absorb carbon emissions. The algae then sinks to the icy depths, effectively removing CO2 from the atmosphere for hundreds of years.

According to lead researcher, Prof. Rob Raiswell of Leeds University, “The Earth itself seems to want to save us.”
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