Of course the carbonate formation releases CO2 and increases the warming effect. The warming will decrease the iron brought in and decrease the upwelling of silicates from the open ocean. Since these minerals are required for fish food production, there is a decrease in fish stocks and your theory is kaput.mistermack wrote:I'm sure we can. And we would, if there was a real problem.Tyrannical wrote:I still can't believe we can't engineer someway to create large algae blooms to suck up all the CO2 we need.
My own favourite would be to have special pumping ships in areas of low plankton life.
You suck up the mud from the ocean floor, and spread it out across the surface. The plankton then use the minerals in the sediment to build shells, which are carbonates. When the animal dies, that sinks to the bottom, and eventually becomes limestone.
Meanwhile, the fish stocks in these infertile areas proliferate because of the plankton bloom, and the companies financing the pumping get a monopoly on the fishing in that area, so the whole enterprise can pay for itself, and help feed the world.
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseu ... 06_3.shtml
Try to get your chemistry straight. There is a release of CO2 with algal blooms, not a net loss. Sheesh!