Guardian: Sprinkling billions of tonnes of mineral dust across the oceans could quickly remove a vast quantities of climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a new study. The proposed "geoengineering" technique would also offset the acidification of the oceans and could be targeted at endangered coral reefs, but it would require a mining effort on the same scale as the world's coal industry and would alter the biology of the oceans. "It certainly is not a simple solution against...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/22/mineral-dust-oceans-carbon-geoengineering
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