A Whale of a Time?

Elon Musk is offering a $100m Climate prize. The Whalex team of Australian scientists hope to collect some of this money. That team have been pumping simulated whale faeces into the ocean, off Sydney (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/24/can-fake-whale-poo-experiment-net-australian-scientists-a-share-of-elon-musks-us100m-climate-prize). The thinking is that the nutients in the fake whale poo will massively increase the growth of tiny phytoplankton in those waters. These unicellular plants photosynthesize, absorbing, as they do so, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Removal of the 'greenhouse gas' might help to limit climate change. Having said that, Mr Musk appears more than willing to augment atmospheric carbon dioxide levels with his SpaceX initiatives.