Going Overboard On Carbon Offsets

Another shot has been fired  across the bows of RV Weather Bird II, the only liquid asset of Planktos, a company of carbon offset buccaneers that has moved its operations literally offshore in emulation  of the floating tax wheeze of those Brethren of the Coast, the scientologists.

The converted trawler was last spied crawling towards High Barbaree after being run out of port in La Palma. Apart from the harbormaster not liking the cut of her jib, his Spanish Majesty's securities and exchange inquisition took unkindly to Planktos' abortive scheme to bilk the pious out of $700,000 towards buying
  .. a climate indulgence for the Pope?

'The New Vatican Climate Forest Initiative to Fully Green the Holy See'

Though there is business in great waters, Weather Bird II may be bound for an iron shore. Writing in the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law.  Kristina Gjerde, high seas policy advisor to the World Conservation Union contends :

"Current proposals to combat climate change by stimulating phytoplankton or algal blooms in the ocean may violate fundamental principles of international law...Adding nutrients, such as iron or nitrogen... should not be considered as a potential solution to climate change.

We first need regulations...Difficulties in actually proving or verifying carbon dioxide sequestration... make the current informal and unregulated market for carbon offsets vulnerable.

One company is already offering carbon offsets to the public on its website to support its work...international law and common sense should not be the first victims...The con...needs to be stringently scrutinised through independent peer-reviewed science, not left in the hands of entrepreneurs...we need to be able to regulate any... benefits... governments should apply similarly rigorous standards to all proposed "geo-engineering" solutions.

The article has already proven fruitful. In responding that: "The idea of private companies offering "carbon offsets"...would just end up as a scam to generate profit for companies pedalling dubious science." Cambridge's Paul Lockwood may have answered the  age-old question of why a fish needs a bicycle. On the admiralty law side, perpetrators of offshore carbon offset piracy can now breath easy.

They are likely to get off  with hanging , for red blooded pirates are rich as  organic fertilizer in the micronutrients phytoplankton crave, and their flag  bears witness to their  being 100% biodegradable.

Taken together ,these factors render walking the plank and keelhauling gross violations of the proposed anti ocean fertilization rules, especially if the condemned are in irons.

Expect Admiralty Eco-Lawyers to commandeer the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law and post affadavies on the Piratically Correct way to  bring The Code into EPA compliance. Keelhauling will be banned, planks confiscated and only Fair Trade hemp rope and yardarms from carbon offset plantations henceforth allowed on execution dock. And no more plastic rum bottles.

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Bits and pieces are flying off the planktos.com website. The scientific advisory committee is gone - and so are the dozen or so staff member photos and profiles.
Russ George's alternative gig, selling Cold Fusion through d2fusion.com also has a web site that is down.
It is amazing that the press which lavished mountains of ink on this project have failed to follow up on the final act.

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