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I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex

Dr. M December 15, 2010 Carbon carbon cycling carbon sequestration Geology Hydrothermal Vent magma ridge sill Spreading Center volcanism

I’m a contrarian. Majority consensus makes me shudder. I just like rooting for underdogs*. Those undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates, spewing molten…

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From the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment

Dr. M November 15, 2010 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Barack Obama Bill Clinton BP carbon dioxide carbon emissions carbon sequestration clean energy climate change conservaton deforestation Democrat emmissions Endangered Species Act Environmental Sciences EPA George Bush green jobs greenhouse emmissions Joe Biden National Parks offshore drilling Oil Spill public land Recovery Through Retrofit Republican smart grid U.N.White House

Obama’s Pledge on the Environment “We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming…

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Around the net…

Peter Etnoyer May 11, 2009 carbon sequestration deep-sea robot DNA laboratory Iron Hypothesis MBARI mermaid Microbes Silurian sea Victor Navone

Bloom carbon won’t sink Scientists studying the fate of carbon particles originating in Southern Ocean plankton blooms find that the carbon never reaches the deep…

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Conservation & Environment Dumping Environmental Sciences Industry & Government

Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems

Dr. M February 11, 2009 carbon credits carbon sequestration circulation climate change deep sea sediments

Mention any carbon sequestration scheme and inevitably someone’s original idea is to dump it into the deep. All these plans share 1)an out -of-site out-of-mind…

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Conservation & Environment

CO2: Good or Bad

Kevin Zelnio June 18, 2008 carbon dioxide carbon sequestration Wallace Broecker

Guardian Online is running a couple of responses to Wallace Broecker’s call for carbon storage experiments in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Worth reading…

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