"The experiment, under way to the northeast of the South Georgia Islands in the southern Atlantic, is intended to promote the growth of phytoplankton and consequent absorption of carbon by dumping 20 tonnes of iron sulphate over an area of 300 square kilometres.

The iron induces a proliferation of algae, which absorb more carbon dioxide (CO2) from the water during photosynthesis. Because the CO2 dissolved in the ocean's surface water is in equilibrium with the atmosphere, a deficit of the gas in the water is compensated by taking more CO2 from the air.

The idea is that enriching the water with iron could become a way to fight global climate change, say the experts running the experiment."
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Who says... "Interesting research, but if we get an ice age out of it, I’m suing. . . ."

Predictable the evil greenies are objecting to a dump truck load of iron sulphate dumped into the ocean.

From same article:
"But some environmentalists disagree, and warn about the experiment's unknown consequences. The study is now immersed in an international-scale debate.

"The absorption of carbon dioxide through the activation of algae growth in the sea does not constitute an effective method to fight climate change and, furthermore, it involves great environmental risks. The sea cannot be turned into a bio-reactor," Stephan Lutter, of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), told Tierramérica."

And:
"One consequence of this kind of risky project could be that it can take away financial resources in other places for reasonable research in energy efficiency, for renewable energy and for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases," said Lutter. "

This is from country that pays it's stupid citizens to use solar energy in one of the worse regions in the world for solar energy.
Go, Germans!

Anyways, a result of this?

" "The experiment is going well. Fertilisation was carried out in a closed oceanic eddy. The phytoplankton are growing and the biomass has more than doubled," Bathmann, in charge of monitoring the experiment from land, told Tierramérica. "

So, it's Aiding and abetting plants,
and obviously:
"It is a megalomaniac plan of the researchers. The background is the economic interest to find a low-cost solution for the global problem of CO2," says the environmental group in a pubic statement.