How to prevent the overheating of the planet
What do we want to do:
Reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.
Solution:
Grow Phytoplankton.
Method:
Take all the human sewage and filter the plastics and dump it in the open ocean, we used to do this off the coast of DUBLIN in the Irish Sea. Had this a positive effect on the fishery?
Premise:
Presently Blue Whales are located where there is large runoffs of natural ferilizers into the ocean.
The Indian Ocean in particular.
They have the largest tongues on the planet and can smell the contents of water.
If I could do that I’d be near a food source and away from poisons, (heavy metals taste naff).
There used to be 300,000 approx Blue whales weighing as much as 1,700 persons.
= 500 million people.
There are many more types of whale, and presumably more species between phytoplankton and large Whale predators.
These all used to dump their loads in the ocean fertilizing it as Cattle do on land.
They also churned the water so the water column held plankton much deeper than the depth of sunlight.
Note: The great number of sharks being caught, seems to be because of the lack of another Apex predator as some Whale species were, and possibly because the water is clearer (without plankton) than would have been the case during the times of large whale numbers.
Theory:
The Great Barrier reef is dying because there is no plankton for the coral to eat.
Sydney used to dump their waste in the river and the current brought it up the coast and fertilized the reef, substituting for the Whales. When I was diving there the water is so much clearer than the water off DONEGAL, which is fertilized by the Shannon outflow.
Sydney Harbour now has shark attacks, sharks need clear water to hunt, therefor Sydney cleaned the water. Hense no food for the coral therefor there are dyings off?
I propose that IRELAND does NOT build a waste treatment plant for DUBLIN and begins dumping waste filtered for plastics in the ocean off the Corrib Gas Field by ocean going sewage tanker.
If the ocean is more productive, the Whales should make a reappearance and the cycle will become self sustaining.
Questions:
Is dumping in the Irish Sea ongoing?
Are there Whales north of this area or are they avoiding it because of the “smell” of the radioactive chemicals there?
Do Whales have offspring every year, if there is enough food for the calves? 60/80 year life span?
Does the murky water reduce infant mortality for the calves?
Will Finland start pumping it’s filtered sewage into the ocean, which it is capable of doing now?
Is the circulatory patterns of the Baltic sea suitable for this?
Would the global ice ages have corresponded to a predator/prey curve?
What would the model for this look like? Inputs/outputs?
To improve the Mediteranean, I propose reintroducing Sturgeon, which used to fertilize this sea.
______________________ Comdt retd. Irish Permanent Defence Forces
Colman O’Keeffe
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