Most models set up to try to figure out what happened during the Late Cretaceous climate changes conclude that water sank from thesurface to thebottomofthe ocean around Antarctica or the North Pacific.
The Swedish government is funding research into the feasibility of using a wind-turbine driven oxygen pump in the Baltic, following studies carried out last year by the University of Gothenburg, which looked at the effect of pumping oxygen-rich surface water to thebottomof two Swedish fjords.
Pipes have now been put in place in Lake Nyos and nearby Lake Monoun to siphon water from the lower layers up to thesurface and allow the CO2 at thebottomofthe lake to slowly bubble out, preventing a repeat of 1986 tragedy.
The billionaires are bankrolling expeditions to reach the deepest place in the ocean, a spot called the Challenger Deep that lies at thebottomofthe Mariana Trench, seven miles below thesurfaceofthe South Pacific.
So I think the reason we're asking you this is because there's this buzz underneath thesurface and we would sort of like to get to thebottom about whether the buzz is precautionary, or whether it's based on something like back-channel conversations between the administration and the industry or other players.