Iron in Ocean to Slow Global Warming?

Global warming is an issue that appears nearly daily on the news and in our newspapers. The Ice caps are melting, the temperature is rising, and our carbon footprint is only getting worse. Our carbon emissions are getting worse and due to this the average temperature is rising by a small amount each year, but this small amount can do a lot of damage. But there is one idea that can help us. 

Everyone knows of the lowest member of the Marine food-chain, Plankton. It may be small, but there is a hell-of-a-lot of it in the ocean. Plankton is a plant, and plants, unlike humans, need CO2. Co2 is what is doing the damage to our wonderful planet, it does this by trapping the heat in our atmosphere and  thus causing the temperature to rise. You can now see why humans are such a problems, we produce billions of tons of CO2 each year. Anyway, back to Plankton; the more Plankton in the oceans, the more CO2 gets used up by the Plankton, and thus lowering the temperature in our atmosphere. 

This is where iron comes into play. As some of you may know, iron is used fertilize many plants, and scientist plan to use it to fertilize plankton, and make the population grow exponentially. Causing more and more CO2 to be used by plants, and another plus is more oxygen for us. Yes, there are other fertilizers that might do a better job than iron, but iron is the only one that won't harm the ocean, other fertilizer are made up of many chemicals that can be harmful.-Evan Doyle

[Via HowStuffWorks]