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SPARROWS INTRODUCED FOR PEST CONTROL. "Less than 200 years ago, there were no House Sparrows in North America. Now these cosmopolitan birds are one of the most abundant songbirds on the continent, with an estimated 150 million birds established in all 48 states."" " http://lnkd.in/dX5fbW6 View in LinkedIn

EUCALYPTUS INTRODUCTION INTO THE US during the Gold Rush involved considerable research. The (wrong) species selected was quick growing but highly flammable and useless for railway ties. "The result was invariably the same: failure. The joint industrial effort evaluated 569 sources representing 103 species over a 14-year period." " " http://lnkd.in/dgQs487 View in LinkedIn

"ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES ON THE EARTH SYSTEM have reached a scale where abrupt global environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach to global sustainability in which we define planetary boundaries within which we expect that humanity can operate safely. Transgressing one or more planetary boundaries may be deleterious or even catastrophic due to the risk of crossing thresholds that will trigger non-linear, abrupt environmental change within continental- to planetary-scale systems."" " http://lnkd.in/dv-KV_4 View in LinkedIn

100 YEARS: TONS OF TOXINS POURED OVER THE PLANET. "Over the past century humans have introduced a large number of chemical substances into the environment. Some are the waste from industrial and agricultural processes. Some have been designed as structural materials and others have been designed to perform various functions such as healing the sick or killing pests and weeds. Obviously some chemicals are useful but many are toxic and their harm to the environment and our health far outweighs their benefit to society."" " http://lnkd.in/dnj7VUw View in LinkedIn

BAD MACRO-ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS are replete in recent history including attempts at biocontrol. Inadvertently, however, we have wittingly conducted truly macro-experiments on the planet, since the beginning industrial revolution: vast amounts of CO2 emissions, pesticides and fertilizers, and the dumping of large amounts of toxins into our soil and water systems. View in LinkedIn

ROYAL SOCIETY REPORT: ACID OCEANS DUE TO ATMOSPHERIC CO2. This august collaborative report concludes that trying to change ocean acidification can only be effected by reducing CO2 emissions. Was this whole venture a red herring? " " http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/policy/publications/2005/9634.pdf View in LinkedIn

IRON SEEDED PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOMS "contain iron-eating microscopic phytoplankton that absorb CO2 from the air through the process of photosynthesis and provide nutrients for marine life. But one type of phytoplankton, a diatom, is using more iron that it needs for photosynthesis and storing the extra in its silica skeletons and shells ... This reduces the amount of iron left over to support the carbon-eating plankton."" " http://lnkd.in/d4A_Jv7 View in LinkedIn

CRITICS OF IRON SEEDING include Nature magazine and Argonne labs. Their strong arguments are cause for serious concern. " " http://lnkd.in/dCxY4ru View in LinkedIn

IRON SEEDING MAY BACKFIRE." ""Fertilizing the oceans with iron — a tactic that "geoengineers" have proposed to fight global warming — could inadvertently spur the growth of toxic microbes, warn scientists who analyzed water samples from past iron-fertilization experiments. Toxin-producing algae that thrive on iron and can contaminate marine life are more widespread than suspected, the researchers said. The finding could impact proposed iron-fertilization projects."" " http://lnkd.in/duBTMkv View in LinkedIn

SEEDING AND SALMON TIES. "Parties to the London Convention and London Protocol expressed 'grave concerns' about this experiment. Search warrants were executed by Environment Canada's enforcement branch to investigate Russ George's office concerning the iron enrichment he performed in 2012 off the coast of British Columbia. In May 2013, the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation removed George as a director of the company and ended his employment." Nice. " " http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_George View in LinkedIn