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The Plan to Fertilize the Ocean With IRON

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One day my marine biology professor had us all read a paper proposing the idea of fertilizing the ocean using iron to create phytoplankton blooms to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to combat climate change. While initially quite a preposterous proposal, the science behind this goal may be enough to convince you otherwise. Support me on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Follow me on Twitter @theatlaspro Sources/further reading: https://www.academia.edu/12496688/The_Oceans_Invisible_Forest https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064501000029 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a6b9/eb68c3acf86e7b5d0bea5513bf970561e380.pdf?_ga=2.56169645.749601878.1553440464-1298984199.1553440464 "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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