In a Feb. 3 webinar with the conservative environmental group ConservAmerica, entrepreneur Russ George pitched the idea of using iron fertilization to spur plankton growth far from shore. George said the procedure removed carbon from the atmosphere while restoring fish populations—an approach he made famous in 2012 through the experimental release of iron sulfate into the Pacific Ocean west of Alaska. He compared iron fertilization favorably with other proposed forms of geoengineering, such as cloud seeding, or dimming the sun. “It’s a nature-based eco-restoration—we’re talking about restoring nature to her historic level of abundance and health. We’re not talking about reengineering nature with human ideas,” he told ConservAmerica’s Brent Fewell. Fewell is an environmental lawyer who served in the EPA under President George W. Bush. “It’s not rocket science handling thousands of 50-pound bags of iron-rich rock dust and mixing them in tanks on board my ship,” George later added. …