[NatureNS] Ocean acidification

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:14:08 -0400
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On 6/20/2012 9:21 AM, Christopher Majka wrote:

> If this happens, a myriad of animals and plants in the ocean -- mollusks
> (mussels, scallops, oysters, clams, snails), barnacles, sea urchins,
> starfish, crinoids, corals, coralline algae, foraminifera, and
> coccolithophores -- may simply dissolve into oblivion.

* whatever happened to the old proposal to suck carbon out of the 
atmosphere by releasing iron into iron-deficient tropical ocean currents 
to increase planktonic productivity, and depositing a plume of fixed 
carbon (and planktonic CaCO3 shells?) on the downstream ocean floor? How 
would this impact acidification?

fred.
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