Iron versus the Greenhouse

This paper reports on the possible repercussions of a Pacific Ocean experiment which demonstrated the effects of adding iron to the ocean. The plant growth stimulated was enough to use 350000 kilograms of carbon dioxide from the seawater. If performed on a large scale, fertilization of ocean water could absorb billions of tones of carbon dioxide from the air, enough to slow the rate of greenhouse warming. A variety of opinions are presented in the article.