WRITTEN BY ANTHONY WATTS ON FEB 20, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Canadian Start-Up Wants To Alter The Ocean’s Chemistry With Antacids
oceanOn February 11th, NBC News published a story by writers Kenzi Abou-Sabe, Yasmine Salam, and Cynthia McFadden titled “Can giving the ocean an antacid help curb climate change?”, describing ways to artificially induce the world’s oceans to capture and store more carbon dioxide.
Whether artificially altering the ocean’s chemistry is a worthwhile or valuable goal to fight climate change is unclear; what is fairly clear, it is impractical due to scale, and could possibly produce unintended negative consequences. [emphasis, links added]
The NBC News story is perhaps best summed up in the first few paragraphs of the story:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/canadian-start-up-wants-to-alter-the-oceans-chemistry-with-antacids/
