Thar she grows! (proposal that nutrients be added to polar oceans to control greenhouse effect)

From: National Review | Date: June 25, 1990 | Copyright information

SOME MARINE biologists have stepped forth with the rarest of commodities-good news about the future of the environment. They propose a means of abolishing the climate change induced by carbon dioxide, which goes by the name of "the greenhouse effect." To the horror of the global-warming lobby-which would like to ban the burning of hydrocarbons-John Martin, Michael Gordon, and Steve Fitzwater have pointed out in the May 10 issue of Nature an obvious and relevant fact: the nutrient-ri...

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