IS PLANKTON OUR FRIEND? “The WeatherBird II, a 115-foot private research vessel, has put to sea from Florida as part of a novel and contentious effort to commercialize the removal of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by triggering blooms of plankton.”

But as I’ve noted in the past, you can never trust Plankton.

UPDATE: Reader Jim O’Neill has identified the global-warming mechanism:

So is it now conceivable that the root cause of global warming is the growth of the whale population that is decimating plankton in the oceans?

21st Century Hippies: pro-nuclear power and anti-whale!

Irony abounds.