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Argument: Humans are already changing Earth; how can geoengineering be wrong?

Issue Report: Geoengineering, iron fertilization of algae blooms

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Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist of marine chemistry and geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts – “We’re already changing the ocean. You can’t avoid altering the ocean by continuing to drive cars and emitting CO2. The ocean will change no matter what.”[1]

Bryan Wassh. “6. Geoengineering”. Time, What’s Next in 2008: “the truth is, we’re already performing an unauthorized experiment on our climate by adding billions of tons of man-made carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Unless the geopolitics of global warming change soon, the Hail Mary pass of geoengineering might become our best shot.”