Climate change, ocean processes and ocean iron fertilization

Recent assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have documented the increasing concentrations of CO 2 in the atmosphere due to anthropogenic activities and their causal link with global warming. The preferred mitigation measure to reverse the rise in atmospheric CO 2 is to reduce emissions of CO 2 from anthropogenic activities, primarily burning fossil fuels and cement production. However, recent studies demonstrate that CO 2 released from fossil fuel emissions is accelerating and the rate of increase of emissions since 2000 exceeds all IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) for various human development paths (e.g. projections of population growth, energy use, rate of adaptation of new technology, land use change) over the next century (IPCC 2000