Climate Restoration by 2050 via Localized Ocean Fertilization - LOF with Iron in Downwelling Eddies @PaulHBeckwith

Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Climate Restoration by 2050 via Localized Ocean Fertilization - LOF with Iron in Downwelling Eddies

Recently I had the pleasure of attending a talk for the Canadian Club of Rome Ottawa branch by Peter Fiekowsky on Climate Restoration.

Peter outlined in detail engineering plans to restore a safe climate essentially by 2050 by using a very interesting, low cost technique for CDR - Carbon Dioxide Removal, called Localized Ocean Fertilization.

In a nutshell, this involves seeding the ocean with iron at select locations near and in downwelling ocean eddies, varying in diameter from 100 to roughly 300 km. Downwelling eddies are those rotating clockwise in the northern hemisphere (use the right hand rule, curl your fingers in the direction of the ocean current and your thumb points to where vertical water flow goes), and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere (use the left hand rule, similar to above).

Peter has kindly provide me access to use his full slide deck to give you this presentation to spread this wonderful idea far and wide. The engineer within me loves this work that Peter and his organizations are doing.

Please share this video far and wide, and be sure to let me know your thoughts via comments on my YouTube video.

Sincerely,
Paul

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References and Links:

The Climate Restoration Alliance: climaterestorationalliance.org

Ambassadors for the Climate Restoration Alliance: Peter Fiekowsky
climaterestorationalliance.org/ambassadors/peter-fiekowsky

Wikipedia page for Peter Fiekowsky:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fiekowsky

Website for Peter Fiekowsky -- Physicist, engineer, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, social innovator, author
peterfiekowsky.com

Earth Nullschool showing various eddies:
earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/grid=on/orthographic=-65.67,37.00,7816/loc=-59.467,36.668

Recent talk by Peter Fiekowsky on the latest work and plans on Climate Restoration - talk was the the Canadian Club of Rome Ottawa branch:
canadiancor.com/cacor-live-peter-fiekowsky-climate-restoration-how-to-restore-co2-levels-by-2050

Web page to Canadian Club of Rome: canadiancor.com

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