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27, 207
Plan to Dump Iron in Ocean
Criticized
http://www.livescience.com/environment/070627_wwf_planktos.html
A controversial plan to dump iron dust into the open
ocean near the Galapagos Islands to induce the growth of phytoplankton met
with opposition from an environmental group today.
Bill Shields
Which is about par for the course. Dismantle most of western productivity
with Kyoto, but don't allow any controlled experiments that might actually
accomplish something beneficial. Unlike the Kyoto restrictions, it's very
easy to simply stop putting the iron into the sea if the effects are not
what you wanted.
The World Wildlife Federation has become a typical bureaucracy subject to
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy, and concerned with
preserving the crisis, not with ending it. In a rational world those who
want to preserve species would be interested in technologies that possible.
Or is it a scam.....
David Bullis
http://www.planktos.com/en
Planktos Restores Ecosystems and Slows Climate Change
Removing CO2 from our oceans and atmosphere by healing the seas, growing new
climate forests, and erasing carbon footprints.
The Business of Planktos The world's leading
ecorestoration firm, Planktos is a for-profit company that generates carbon
offsets in two ways: by restoring plankton populations in the world's oceans
and by planting new "climate forest parks" with its EU subsidiary KlimaFa <http://www.klimafa.com/>
. Read More... <http://www.planktos.com/About/About.html>
Carbon Offsets Plankton and trees both capture CO2
through photosynthesis and store the carbon in their tissues. Once
sequestered, this CO2 converts to carbon credits that Planktos can sell in
global emission markets.
I do not find Carbon Offset payments appealing, but apparently it is
legal. I am far more interested in developing the technology for reducing
atmospheric CO2, particularly if doing that has useful side effects.
Plankton blooms are usually beneficial; of course some are not, and are
known as "red tides".
I have no more data; but anyone opposed by the World Wildlife Federation
is presumably actually doing experiments or planning to do them, and that
should be important. I'd be interested in hearing from someone who knows
more about about this. I don't need guesses or speculations. I can do those
myself.
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And then we have the RIAA in action:
"They also emphasized that that if she did not abandon
her legal rights, they would continue to persecute her and her young
daughter, and again demanded to interrogate and confront her little girl."
http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.
ssf?/base/news/1182914724179260.xml&coll=7
- Roland Dobbins
Which is an interesting tactic. One wonders if the have some Good Soldier
Schweik in their organization?
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Some readers may find this amusing:
Longest word in English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_words
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You may also be interested in
John Millen: Robert Heinlein at 100
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?
q=YjE5OGQwZDgzODc5OTYwODRkN
TIzM2Y5ZWZhNDUwNTE=
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And this
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/
stories/2007/06/25/story14.html?b=
1182744000^1480825&surround=etf
Note my friend Wil McCarthy..
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Pournelle's Iron Law of
Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two
kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the
organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in
education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs.
union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most
incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of
person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write
the rules under which the organization functions.
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