Interesting story from the Guardian, about a supposed "geoengineering experiment" carried out off the coast of Canada.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering
And a follow-up here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/17/canada-geoengineering-pacific?newsfeed=true
First of all, let's have a look at that diagram showing the bloom. You can get them from here:
http://gdata1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=WaterQuality
It looks quite impressive with orange and red all along the coast.
Oh, wait a second. THAT'S FROM 2010. Yes, two years earlier, in the same month, the coastline looked pretty much the same.
Here's six years of Augusts.
The bloom is the orange blob in the middle of the 2012 image. All the other orange seems to be just normal variations. Here's the bloom in global context:
So what's going on? The Guardian seems to be speculating that Russ George is a con-artist, and that he's just doing this to rip off the Haida People, and their bank:
(The link went to a pdf file that has since been taken down, I've attached a copy here. )
View attachment OMVC_HP_application-ocr.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/17/canada-geoengineering-pacific?newsfeed=true
http://gdata1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=WaterQuality
It looks quite impressive with orange and red all along the coast.

Oh, wait a second. THAT'S FROM 2010. Yes, two years earlier, in the same month, the coastline looked pretty much the same.
Here's six years of Augusts.

The bloom is the orange blob in the middle of the 2012 image. All the other orange seems to be just normal variations. Here's the bloom in global context:

So what's going on? The Guardian seems to be speculating that Russ George is a con-artist, and that he's just doing this to rip off the Haida People, and their bank:
(The link went to a pdf file that has since been taken down, I've attached a copy here. )
View attachment OMVC_HP_application-ocr.pdf
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