About me, this site and you

Welcome!

I'm a "hobby-environmentalist" with 'green leanings', while enjoying many benefits of our energy-dependent society. I keep up-to-date by reading popular and professional journals, 'surfing the web', and university study [1].

This website was inspired by an article in the New Scientist about fertilising oceans with iron to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide [2]. However necessary the limitation of global warning, this particular proposal filled me with horror.

Having read a wealth of publications from all sides, my investigatation into the "what, why, how, who and where" of ocean iron-fertilisation has not changed my views - but they are now more informed.

This site presents a synthesis of my reading and my conclusions.

My target audience is "someone like me": an 'interested layman', aware of environmental concepts and concerns, and alarmed (or excited) by the proposal to dump tonnes of iron into our oceans.

References:

[1] 'The Environmental Web", an Open University course focussing on web research and the environment: http://www.open.ac.uk/science/infocus/u316/index.htm

[2] The article that started it all: "A risk too far : Dumping CO2 in the oceans could be a disaster, yet it's still legal" Nicola Jones. New Scientist vol 172 issue 2313 - 20 October 2001, page 7