A scientific expedition aiming to do ocean fertilization or geoengineering research would be playing into the hands of types like Paul Watson if they decided that having weapons on board was a defense. Watson is looking for an image the media he is playing to can use - "armed rogue geoengineers fire upon unarmed protest boat" would be better than anything he ever got from whalers he was harassing.
Watson's possible target, Russ George, is the same man who not long ago was proclaiming that his publicly traded company "*expects to have a cold-fusion heater ready for market as soon as 2007*". (Look under the subhead "Cold Fusion" on* this webpage<http://www.newenergymovement.org/recapsa-cofeii.php?p=recapsa.php> )*. This time, the bottle of snake oil that Mr. George is selling may have an actual ingredient in it, i.e. a large salmon run may indeed show up for the Haida to harvest in 2014 as a result of the 100 or so tonnes of iron compounds he talked them into dumping into the ocean last year. Scientists would want to be cautious about identifying themselves or their discipline with anything Mr. George is or is doing, i.e. defending Mr. George on the basis he is a scientist or that he is doing research unless they had carefully examined what Mr. George is doing. He sounds more like a very flamboyant consultant to would be ocean farmers than anything else. The senior political leadership of the Haida, the Hereditary Chiefs Council, and the Council of the Haida Nation, have distanced themselves from what one of their village councils is doing with Mr. George. They published this statement<http://www.haidanation.ca/Pages/Splash/Public_Notices/PDF/Joint_Statement.pdf>. It will be interesting to see if all the fish Mr. George is promising so confidently actually show up. On Saturday, April 27, 2013 2:53:22 AM UTC-7, andrewjlockley wrote: > > ... In this specific case, my suggestion is that for all the bombast, > George's enemies are unlikely to ram his boat if it's firing warning shots > at him. I've no particular love for Russ George methods, but killing his > crew isn't the way to solve anything. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
