To be clear on this point, I do not advocate inaction, and I do not downplay the seriousness of the situation we face. But I do strongly advocate thinking through the consequences of actions, ensuring people who will bear the brunt of the consequences have a seat at the table, and being cautious of scientific hubris.

There needs to be action – but that doesn’t mean we can’t be smart about the decisions we make.

These effects are the geo-engineering of the planet that will as many reports note be irreversible in a mere 20 years. Your report follows the lies of many so called green organizations but which are more aptly described by world leaders as ‘the anti-science brigades” in suggesting we don’t know enough to do anything about this ocean crisis. Decades of scientific research at the cost of hundreds of millions of dllars have shown the role of diminishing iron is causing both ocean productivity losses and exacerbated acidification and that show tiny amounts of iron replenishment might undo this great harm through ocean eco-restoration.

Your haring toward some inane ‘precautionary principle’ is certain prescription to doom the oceans to the most dramatic mass extinction ever on this small blue planet. That the tipping point is a mere 21 years off, less time than has been dedicated to studying iron replenishment, ought to tell us that to do nothing is to make certain the oceans re-boot back to the root level bacterial ecosystem from which green plants and higher life forms like animals evolved some 600 million years ago.

The carbon bomb already airborne, those hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2 emitted over the past century, have a lifetime in the air of a century or more. This clearly means that even if we were to miraculously stop emissions of even a single additional molecule of CO2 that emission reduction would not save the oceans. That carbon bomb is now expolding in the oceans is more than potent enough to force that eco-system re-boot. ONLY ocean eco-restoration and the power of photosynthesis offers the chance to have ocean plants fix that deadly acidifying CO2 into ocean life instead of ocean death.

But hey we’ve got lots of time to engage in fear mongering lies about the dangers of anything humankind might do as being never the right thing, we’ve got 21 years. Tell your children that you are leaving them a blue planet where the ocean life filled blue oceans are oceans of slime.

Well in a way I’m not surprised because, as per usual, the mad scientists will come up with the most plausible reasons for travelling down this road and generally they involve someone making loads of money.
Pity you can’t eat money.