9/6/2019 Assignment: Climate Change
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Assignment: Climate Change
INSTRUCTIONS
Read the following article and answer the questions at the end. Submit a MS Word
document or *.pdf file with your responses to the assignment dropbox. All answers
should be in your own words (do not copy and paste definitions). Answer each question
in more than two complete sentence; some answers may require more explanation than
others. You will be deducted points for short and incomplete answers.
A ROGUE CLIMATE EXPERIMENT OUTRAGES SCIENTISTS
A California businessman chartered a fishing boat in July, loaded it with 100 tons of iron
dust and cruised through Pacific waters off western Canada, spewing his cargo into the
sea in an ecological experiment that has outraged scientists and government officials.
The entrepreneur, whose foray came to light only this week, even duped the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States into lending him ocean-
monitoring buoys for the project. Canada’s environment ministry says it is investigating
the experiment, which was carried out with no government or scientific oversight. A
spokesman said the ministry had warned the venture in advance that its plan would
violate international agreements.
Marine scientists and other experts have assailed the experiment as unscientific,
irresponsible and probably in violation of those agreements, which are intended to
prevent tampering with ocean ecosystems under the guise of trying to fight the effects
of climate change. Though the environmental impact of the foray could well prove
minimal, scientists said, it raises the specter of what they have long feared: rogue field
experiments that might unintentionally put the environment at risk.
9/6/2019 Assignment – Climate Change
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The entrepreneur, Russ George, calling it a “state-of-the-art study,” said his team
scattered iron dust several hundred miles west of the islands of Haida Gwaii, in
northern British Columbia, in exchange for $2.5 million from a native Canadian group.
The iron spawned the gro
