Planktos has just announced that its research ship Weatherbird II, has begun its "Voyage of Recovery." For the benefit of any anti-Darwinian types in the audience, that's a play on century-old words indeed. Even if we knew the Weatherbird's course, we wouldn't tell because there are still plenty of people who think that studying the effects of a few tons of extremely dilute powdered iron ore spread atop the deepest offshore zones is more dangerous than climate catastrophe and worsening marine acidification. Here's a background post on Planktos' plans and opposition to them. Kimberley outlines the need for the v...
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