Save MMGW appeal

mkpdavies · 14-02-2008, 03:00 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/te...in&oref=slogin

Quote:

Planktos, a California company that is trying to turn a profit by fertilizing the ocean with iron dust, canceled planned field tests on Wednesday, citing a lack of funds. At the company’s Web site, planktos.com, a notice blamed a “highly effective disinformation campaign” for the cancellation.
The business plan had been to sell carbon offset credits earned by creating blooms of phytoplankton that, in theory, would absorb a certain amount of the climate-warming gas carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and then sink to the seabed.
The credits would be sold in the growing market for such offsets to compensate for unavoidable emissions of carbon dioxide.

Where is Bono? Where is Al Gore? Where is Richard Branson?

Clippo, you must have a few bob, seeing as you are an alleged world class scientist, with thousands of peer reviewed papers that have enriched humankind. Dig deep for the appeal!

Aardvark · 14-02-2008, 03:56 PM

Carbon offsets are the lazy man's way of tackling environmental changes. The world is still the poorer if I buy the already existing Brazilian bush to compensate my denuding of virgin parts of England. Don't buy Brazilian forests, leave the English bush intact.

14-02-2008, 03:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
Aardvark Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oxonia Posts: 3,928	Carbon offsets are the lazy man's way of tackling environmental changes. The world is still the poorer if I buy the already existing Brazilian bush to compensate my denuding of virgin parts of England. Don't buy Brazilian forests, leave the English bush intact. __________________ When in Woking do as the Wokes do. "I do not wish to form my opinions by thoughtlessly quoting others; I wish others to support their opinions by sensibly quoting me." Paul Wesson (Aardvark) 13th April 2008

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