Russ George: The Man to Save the World?
“Give me half a tanker of iron and I will give you an ice age.” — Russ George
Russ George in the volume 18 issue of Make magazine says he has a solution for global warming. His plan sounds like a deus ex machina solution for our global warming problems: get some iron (0.5 micron hematite), drop it in the ocean, spread at the right times and places, plankton eats iron, plankton grows, and global warming and dying fish go bye-bye. He has also written a Google Knol article (yes, someone uses Google Knol) on the subject as well.
His company, Plantoks Science bills themselves as a “privately held ecorestoration and ocean biotechnology company” though this sounds like “MacGyver style fix to global warming.”
Science to the rescue or psuedo-science fraud?
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