A very stimulating conversation with Russ George

[Jon Schull]

I just had a very stimulating 2 hour conversation with Russ George, our latest ERA candidate.  

(He'll come to an upcoming town hall meeting; Avery please send onboarding background)

I particularly recommend the video to the film-makers among us (Gaya, Phoebe, John, Ian, who else?), George's story (past, present and future) is a natural for a documentary.

Here's one of a half-dozen head-slappers.  As I understand George's story

Rising CO2 levels have led to an big increase in greenery around the world.

This has greatly reduced the amount of dust that gets swept out to the oceans.

That dust is often rich in iron which is a (the?) rate-limiting factor for photosynthesis.

So the ocean has been undergoing a "dust drought" for the last 50 years, resulting in massive reductions in carbon sequestration, plankton, and plankton-ogenic aerosols and isoprenes that promote cloud formation gobble up methane, respectively.

Russ is famous for his (controversial) solution to this problem: replenishing ocean pastures by sprinkling tiny amounts of iron oxide into iron-depleted ocean waters.

(He did this once, in partnership with an Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest that knew him from his days managing forestry restoration projects in British Columbia.)

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Co-founder,  e-NABLE: volunteers worldwide making free, 3D printed prosthetics

Innovation Fellow, JMK Innovation Fund

[rob de laet]

Dear Jon, 

great to hear, Russ will be co-writer of the Ocean chapter together with Howard Dryden, two absolutely brilliant people with a record of acting!

Rob de Laet 

Member of the Eco Restoration Alliance

Fellow of the Global Evergreening Alliance

WhatsApp: +55 71 992617846

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[Butler, Susan F]

Wow! Most wonderful! 

Susan Farist Butler, RN, MSN, PhD

Visiting Scholar, Climate and Morality

Harvard Divinity School

Cambridge, MA

www.LeavingtheCarbonEconomy.com

Co-Principal Investigator
Laboratory for Probabilistic Reasoning
Psychology Department
Tufts University
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