Blue-Green Algae Project

Howard Dryden  GOES, Roslin Innovation, Edinburgh

The oceans are turning green because of a massive regime shift from carbonate-based plankton such as coccolithophores and diatoms to cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates. The cyanobacteria dinoflagellates are not good food sources for zooplankton, and many of them are toxic. This is not good news; it spells the end of most marine life, including seals, fish, criustaceans, and whales, and the loss of a food supply for around 3 billion people.

Cyanobacteria and dinolflagellates do not produce oils to maintain the SML layer; this means we have high atmospheric water vapour pressure, torrential downpours, high wind velocity, and extreme fluctuations in the climate. The Earth is no longer a Blue Planet but a toxic green planet....