This just on the wire from ETC...
In a shot across the bows of geoengineering companies, the London Convention (the International Maritime Organization body that oversees dumping of wastes at sea) today unanimously endorsed a scientific statement of concern on ocean fertilisation and declared its intention to develop international regulations to oversee the controversial activities. It further advised states that such large-scale schemes are "currently not justified."
This is a smart move by the LC allowing for substantial assessment before large-scale 'trials' are conducted in biodiversity hotspots like the Indo-Pacific and the Galapagos.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Ocean Nourishment Corporation of Sydney, Australia just got the green light to dump several hundred tons of industrially-produced urea in to the Sulu Sea between the Philippines and Borneo. Assuming you urinate about 1.5 liters a day (range is 800ml to 2000ml) that is about the same amount of 500…
Or Controversial US businessman's iron fertilisation off west coast of Canada contravenes two UN conventions, says the Graun (h/t Timmy).
This is the same bloke who was behind the failed Planktos stuff. If you're deceptive you might call him an environmentalist - but "chancer" would seem closer to…
There are 35 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
There are 27 new papers appearing on PLoS ONE today. A quick scan of the titles makes me want to read the following more carefully:
Plasticity of the Intrinsic Period of the Human Circadian Timing System by Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Kenneth P. Wright, Richard E. Kronauer and Charles A. Czeisler:…
There you are you see!? Didn't I say "Call in the army, navy, airforce, whatever it takes and stop them!" ? Long live the London Convention and more power to their elbow! Maniacs who think that piling junk into the sea to remedy the effects of piling junk into the sea should be bound, gagged and then dumped into the deepest bit of the Marianas Trench . . . except - wait a bit - wouldn't that count as piling junk into the sea??