If You Ever Had Any Doubt About Their True Agenda
Some scientists have been trying to develop means of encouraging rapid plankton growth to combat global warming. In fact a US team is heading down to the Equator right now, and they're planning to fertilize the ocean with iron to see if it causes a plankton bloom. Regardless of your position on global warming, it's an interesting experiment, and promising in that it could lead to means of controlling atmospheric composition without destroying the economy.
Promising unless, of course, your true goal is to destroy the economy.
But member countries of the London Convention, including Australia, decided that larger-scale ocean fertilisation was not justified, and should be treated with caution.Very open-minded, eh? The London Convention, at least, is simply hedging based on lack of scientific evidence. But for Greenpeace, it's all about the evils of industry, not about solving the problem.Greenpeace said yesterday that ocean fertilisation had already been recognised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as "highly speculative".
"This agreement also sends a clear message to governments, due to meet for next month's United Nations climate conference in Bali, about the shortcomings of supposed technical fixes as opposed to cutting carbon dioxide emissions at source," said Dr David Santillo, of Greenpeace International.
An honest organization would be receptive to possible work-arounds. But Greenpeace has never been an honest organization.