"It was 5 a.m. and my husband and I were up with our 3-week-old son.
Looking out at the ocean, we spotted two towering, black dorsal fins:
orcas, or killer whales. Then two more. We had never seen an orca on the
coast, and never heard of their coming so close to shore. In our
sleep-deprived state, it felt like a miracle, as if the baby had wakened
us to make sure we didn t miss this rare visit. The possibility that the
sighting may have resulted from something less serendipitous did not
occur to me until two weeks ago, when I read reports of a bizarre ocean
experiment off the islands of Haida Gwaii, several hundred miles from
where we spotted the orcas swimming. There, an American entrepreneur
named Russ George dumped 120 tons of iron dust off the hull of a rented
fishing boat; the plan was to create an algae bloom that would sequester
carbon and thereby combat climate change
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index...>.
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