A Pinch o’ this, and a Dash o’ that – To Fix Climate Change, Scientists Turn To Hacking The Earth – DON”T FORGET THE CALCIUM!

October 20, 2013 National

An Experiment With Unclear Results One of the wild things about geoengineering is that even the scientists proposing it don’t really want to do it. The need for it, says Matthew Watson, is just a sign of how bad things are. “That’s why I push the research agenda so hard,” he says. “I’m pretty appalled by the thought of full-scale deployment, but I’m also pretty worried about burying our heads in the sand and not thinking about what that would mean.” more@alaskapublic 21:52

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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