Plankton is one celled plant and animal organisms in the ocean.
Stock the oceans with more plant plankton. This would use up more of the sun's energy in photosynthesis preventing the ocean water from getting as hot. It would decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the air and decrease the green house effect, slowing down or stopping global warming. It would increase the amount of oxygen and increase the number of fish in the ocean by providing them with more food.
Plant plankton is the main source of oxygen on the earth and the photosynthesis in plant plankton is the main mechanism of getting rid of carbon dioxide.
Just like fish hatcheries are used to stock ponds with fish, efforts could be made to grow more plant plankton and release it into the ocean. There it should increase further by its own growth and development.

Interesting.

Are there any unintended concequences?

It's a given that the planet goes through global warming and cooling periods as a course of nature, would interferring with this natural cycle produce long term detrimental effects far worse than adapting to this natural cycle?

I'm all for cutting our losses, ditch fossil fuels... take up the more energy efficiant alternitive fuels... and let the earth go through it's cycle to balance it'self out again.

Not to mess with it even more...

Global warming can not be stopped, we can slow it down but cant stop it. For one its a natural process and two we have screwed that process up so much, we have increased it by many thousands of years.

~Thanato

Well when the ice age does come im movin down to Mexico!

^Too bad Mexico wont be much warmer!lol!

That's using the old noodle.

But then the plankton might get out of hand and cool the oceans too much.

Or there might be a huge boom in whale population. That would be great to bring back endangered whales, but then what?


Here's something I don't get:

Why don't they create giant filter machines similar to the Ionic Breeze Quadrant, put them up on the Hollywood Hills, and have them suck all the polluted air through them, creating fresh breezes off the ocean for the city? Would they have to be too big in order to work? I just don't see why we don't try to clean up the atmosphere first instead of proposing all these new ideas that the oil companies don't like.

good idea, but where would you get all that plankton?

IIRC this proposal was made some years ago. Increasing plankton by seeding the south seas whit podwered iron, but i think it was too dificult to calculated the effect of the currents, the exact quantity of iron required, or if its would work at all.

if we want to find a solution to global warming, we should first understand what global warming is...
so what is Global Warming...(just act like i dont know what global warming... and explain what it is... there might be a loophole in the explaination that might help us find the answer to this Global Warming problem...)

global warming is caused by the sun. "pollutants" in the air have a negligible effect. (see global warming on mars http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars...age_031208.html unless haliburton is up on mars drilling and polluting and driving cars like crazy)