With regard to global warming due to excessive CO2 in the
atmosphere which is to a large extent is due to
deforestation of plants and trees that convert CO2 to oxygen
and is further exacerbated by urban sprawl to take over open
lands, found this novel proposal to attempt to reduce global
warming.
All the desert areas in the world could bloom again once we
develop an overunity power source that could power
atmospheric precipitators, desalinate ocean water and pump
it in to irrigate and reclaim arid desert regions. The more
plants and surface area covered with them, the more CO2
absorption and conversion to oxygen.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223327.html
THE rich waters off the coast of Chile could soon be
producing even more plankton. In a bid to curb global
warming, the Chilean government is considering a proposal by
an Australian oceanographer and a Japanese engineering
company to fertilise the sea with nitrogen.
This would boost biological activity, and with it the
ocean's capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere.
Ian Jones of the University of Sydney's Ocean Technology
Group recently patented his idea of piping fertiliser into
the ocean to encourage the growth of phytoplankton.
As the organisms photosynthesise, they use up CO2 dissolved
in the water, causing the ocean to draw more out of the
atmosphere. Some of this carbon eventually falls to the
ocean floor, locked up in the skeletons of plankton and
fish.
So the effect of increased growth would be a reduction in
atmospheric levels of CO2, the main greenhouse gas driving
global warming.
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