As Temperatures Rise, So Does Pressure to Engineer the Ocean

“This is why researchers—like Fennel or David Ho, professor in the department of oceanography at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa and a co-founder of a non-profit research organization focused on marine carbon removal—say scientists need to provide an independent assessment of the technologies’ effects and efficacy; without that, Ho says, the promised carbon removal amounts to greenwashing. ‘The verification step has to be non-profit, and it has to be separate from your money-making scheme,’ says Ho, who co-founded [C]Worthy, a nonprofit that makes open-source software to quantify the efficacy and side effects of marine carbon removal. ‘As ocean biogeochemists, if we have the inclination and we have the skills, then it behooves us to work on it.’”

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