World's Biggest Geoengineering Experiment 'Violates' UN Rules

[burntheships]

A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July, a Guardian investigation can reveal.

Lawyers, environmentalists and civil society groups are calling it a "blatant violation" of two international moratoria and the news is likely to spark outrage at a United Nations environmental summit taking place in India this week.

Satellite images appear to confirm the claim by Californian Russ George that the iron has spawned an artificial plankton bloom as large as 10,000 square kilometres. The intention is for the plankton to absorb carbon dioxide and then sink to the ocean bed – a geoengineering technique known as ocean fertilisation that he hopes will net lucrative carbon credits
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering

George says his team of
"scientists" ( hahahha) has been monitoring the results with equipment loaned from US agencies; Nasa and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration.

According to George : "We've gathered data targeting all the possible fears that have been raised [about ocean fertilisation],"  "And the news is good news, all around, for the planet."

This  violation of a dump took place from a fishing boat in an eddy 200 nautical miles west of the islands of Haida Gwaii a diverse ecosystem where George convinced the local council of an indigenous village to establish the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation to channel more than $1m of its own funds into the project


This is very pathetic on the part of these men seeking to gain carbon credits,
a scheme of greed in exchange for toxic oceans.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/17/canada-geoengineering-pacific?intcmp=122

[Amaterasu]

Money is the source of insanity, it seems.  Oy.

[burntheships]

Amy,

Indeed it seems so. In fact, its so insulting....this toxic dump
over a race for carbon credits. If there is anything worse than
fiat currency, it would be carbon credits.

[Amaterasu]

I might venture a guess that the "carbon credit" scheme is to allow for just such poisoning of Our planet, based on all the evidence of efforts to make the surface of this planet deadly...

[ArMaP]

Money is the source of insanity, it seems.  Oy.

No, just a fertilizer.

[Caver78]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/10/19/bc-ocean-fertilization-haida.html

The comments section was particularily interesting...lots of backround leads on the ''Dumpers''.

[Amaterasu]

Didn't see, but I wonder if this Disney is in any way related to the Disneys of amusement park fame...  Given Walt's Nazi affiliations and eugenics support...I might give a high probability there IS a link.