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Veteran Expediter
From Neal Boortz
EVERYONE GO TAKE A WHIZ IN THE OCEAN
No, I'm not trying to be nasty here. It just might save the planet! It seems that some climate researchers are investigating the idea of dumping huge quantities of urea into the oceans on the theory that this will cause these oceans to scrub, if you will, massive quantities of carbon dioxide from the air. Urea, you see, is a substance that naturally occurs in urine. The idea is that the urea promotes the growth of plankton. Plankton will create an algae bloom. The algae bloom will absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. Fish will eat the plankton and die .. and then will sink to the bottom of the ocean taking all of that CO2 with them. But I see a problem here. With all of those dead fish filling up the oceans, won't that cause the ocean levels to rise?
The article is here;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/05/eapacific105.xml
EVERYONE GO TAKE A WHIZ IN THE OCEAN
No, I'm not trying to be nasty here. It just might save the planet! It seems that some climate researchers are investigating the idea of dumping huge quantities of urea into the oceans on the theory that this will cause these oceans to scrub, if you will, massive quantities of carbon dioxide from the air. Urea, you see, is a substance that naturally occurs in urine. The idea is that the urea promotes the growth of plankton. Plankton will create an algae bloom. The algae bloom will absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. Fish will eat the plankton and die .. and then will sink to the bottom of the ocean taking all of that CO2 with them. But I see a problem here. With all of those dead fish filling up the oceans, won't that cause the ocean levels to rise?
The article is here;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/05/eapacific105.xml