Fight Global Warming. Go take a wiz in the Pacific

[Queasy]

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Proposals to dump large quantities of nitrogen-rich chemical in the Pacific as a quick fix for climate change have emerged at a UN treaty meeting in London.

Governments meeting to discuss whether the oceans should be used for experiments aimed at "fixing" carbon from the atmosphere heard that an Australian company is planning to dump 500 tons of industrially-produced urea - a substance that naturally occurs in urine - into the sea between Philippines and Borneo.

The meeting of members of the London Convention, the UN treaty on dumping at sea, heard that Ocean Nourishment Corporation of Sydney was in discussion with the Philippines government to pump nitrogen-rich water into the sea to stimulate algal blooms.

The idea is to pump the urea into barren areas of the ocean on the edge of the continental shelf to stimulate the growth of plant plankton.

Phytoplankton absorb carbon dioxide from sea water. Fish eat them and when they die some fall to the bottom, potentially removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Ian Jones, chief executive of the Ocean Nourishment Corporation, has been quoted as saying: "We transform the land to provide food for people. This is like practising agriculture at sea."

His company intends to use its technology to claim carbon credits under the Kyoto climate treaty.

John Ridley, managing director of the Ocean Nourishment Corporation, said: "An environmental assessment whether required for this small scale of experiment or not, is being prepared as this is part of our company environmental practice.

"While ocean nourishment will stimulate algal growth it is not intended to cause algal blooms. In fact the intention is to control the nutrient concentrations at one tenth to one fifth of levels that would result in an algal boom.

"In terms of a moratorium on research and development into climate change solutions - I think this would be unwise.

"In terms of terminology "dumping" is not a term that describes our nutrient injection - in the same way that a farmer doesn't dump fertilizer on his crops. Dumping tends to imply a waste product whereas this form of nitrogen is a valuable commodity."

The proposed release of urea follows controversy over plans by Planktos, a San Francisco-based company to dump thousands of tons of iron in the Pacific off the Galapagos Islands in an experiment also designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

A coalition of environmental groups are calling for the London Convention to call a moratorium on large "geo-engineering" projects until there has been an assessment of their environmental impacts.

David Santillo, Greenpeace representative on the London Convention, said: "This ill founded scheme is hitting the news because the Philippine bureau of fisheries is preparing to issue a permit. There would probably be an algal bloom but the vague assumption that carbon would be locked away forever is nonsense.

"Our view is that if the London Convention doesn't stop this, we wonder who will."

A spokesman for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that geo-engineering solutions to climate change remain largely unproven and are potentially high risk.

"The UK Government's strategy is that the most sustainable, low risk and effective solution to climate change is to tackle the problem at its source through substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions."

 

[FoBoT]

what a bunch of morans

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what a bunch of morans

You idiot. They're in britain, not Utah.

 

[ElFenix]

bring on the ice ages!

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what a bunch of morans

You idiot. They're in britain, not Utah.

lowell

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what a bunch of morans

You idiot. They're in britain, not Utah.

what are british morans called?

 

[NuroMancer]

What makes people think that doing large scale experiments on the ocean is a good idea?

 

[NuroMancer]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what a bunch of morans

You idiot. They're in britain, not Utah.

what are british morans called?

Guessing here? Maybe tossers?

 

[BigJ]

When in doubt, just pump everything full of more chemicals.

Don't get me wrong, this very well could work. Or it could very well trigger an evolution in the Emperor Penguin, ushering in a thousand years of darkness as mankind falls subservient to our new tuxedo wearing overlords.

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what a bunch of morans

You idiot. They're in britain, not Utah.

what are british morans called?

<madden>

Well see, this one guy used a play on word to udderly call the other guy morons, but spelled it morans instead. And that's called sarcasm. And then the other guy, the other guys also play on the same thing, and instead of mormons, he said morans, and mormons are in Utah, you see? Speaking of mormons, they have many wives, I'd like to...hehe.. hehe.. you know...

</madden>

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: BigJ
When in doubt, just pump everything full of more chemicals.

Don't get me wrong, this very well could work. Or it could very well trigger an evolution in the Emperor Penguin, ushering in a thousand years of darkness as mankind falls subservient to our new tuxedo wearing overlords.

The Sea Otters of the Allied Atheist Alliance will smash their skulls like a clam on their tummies.

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: SSSnail

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what a bunch of morans

You idiot. They're in britain, not Utah.

what are british morans called?

<madden>

Well see, this one guy used a play on word to udderly call the other guy morons, but spelled it morans instead. And that's called sarcasm. And then the other guy, the other guys also play on the same thing, and instead of mormons, he said morans, and mormons are in Utah, you see? Speaking of mormons, they have many wives, I'd like to...hehe.. hehe.. you know...

</madden>

LOL, I was thinking the same thing. I was like, WTF does morans have anything to do with Utah?

 

[videogames101]

lol, people really take something like that seriously?

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: videogames101
lol, people really take something like that seriously?

It's about as serious as Manbearpig.

So it's super serial.

 

[manowar821]

SSSnail and Queasy made me SERIOUSLY lawl. Thanks you guys! :laugh:

 

[FoBoT]

yeah, that is funny

i'll piss on anything if it'll piss off manbearpig and his minions of doom

 

[DrPizza]

Not going to work. They'll figure out:
A. Now we have algae, we can grow little fish.
B. Now we have little fish, we can grow bigger fish.
C. Woohoo! An expensive fish farm! Fish go to grocery store instead of the bottom of the ocean.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: SSSnail

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what a bunch of morans

You idiot. They're in britain, not Utah.

what are british morans called?

<madden>

Well see, this one guy used a play on word to udderly call the other guy morons, but spelled it morans instead. And that's called sarcasm. And then the other guy, the other guys also play on the same thing, and instead of mormons, he said morans, and mormons are in Utah, you see? Speaking of mormons, they have many wives, I'd like to...hehe.. hehe.. you know...

</madden>

this thread delivers!

 

[Alistar7]

Ok kiddies no pissing in the pool, save it for the ocean.....

 

[Bill Brasky]

Originally posted by: SSSnail

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what a bunch of morans

You idiot. They're in britain, not Utah.

what are british morans called?

<madden>

Well see, this one guy used a play on word to udderly call the other guy morons, but spelled it morans instead. And that's called sarcasm. And then the other guy, the other guys also play on the same thing, and instead of mormons, he said morans, and mormons are in Utah, you see? Speaking of mormons, they have many wives, I'd like to...hehe.. hehe.. you know...

</madden>

:laugh: Great post!

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: BigJ
When in doubt, just pump everything full of more chemicals.

Don't get me wrong, this very well could work. Or it could very well trigger an evolution in the Emperor Penguin, ushering in a thousand years of darkness as mankind falls subservient to our new tuxedo wearing overlords.

I, for one, welcome our miniature new tuxedo wearing overlords.

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: SSSnail

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what a bunch of morans

You idiot. They're in britain, not Utah.

what are british morans called?

<madden>

Well see, this one guy used a play on word to udderly call the other guy morons, but spelled it morans instead. And that's called sarcasm. And then the other guy, the other guys also play on the same thing, and instead of mormons, he said morans, and mormons are in Utah, you see? Speaking of mormons, they have many wives, I'd like to...hehe.. hehe.. you know...

</madden>

Lol, good madden impression, but I got the joke b4 reading this ++ point for effort

 

[SeaSerpent]

Fight Global Warming. Go take a wiz in the Pacific

Funny you should bring this up, I did that last week.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: BigJ
When in doubt, just pump everything full of more chemicals.

Don't get me wrong, this very well could work. Or it could very well trigger an evolution in the Emperor Penguin, ushering in a thousand years of darkness as mankind falls subservient to our new tuxedo wearing overlords.

I don't like emperor penguins and what they stand for (homosexuality and Linux)

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: SeaSerpent

Fight Global Warming. Go take a wiz in the Pacific

Funny you should bring this up, I did that last week.

Can someone PLEASE give this man a Nobel peace price?!