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Re:Widespread and sometimes drastic marine oxygen declines by colechristensen on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @02:51AM (#19252692)
Why don't we intentionally oxygenate the water where ag runoff meets the ocean to encourage algal blooms to either act as food for sea life or to fix carbon by algae dying and sinking to the bottom of the ocean?

Ok that isn't the only issue, but it seems to be a big one.

Re:Widespread and sometimes drastic marine oxygen declines by King-Aaron on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:08AM (#19252743)
We'll probably enter the era of experimental geoengineering pretty soon, I would imagine.
Re:Widespread and sometimes drastic marine oxygen declines by bamboozled on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:10AM (#19252755)
I think at some point in the very near future it would be better off face facts, avoid ag run off and tackle climate change rather than implement more hacks.
Re:Widespread and sometimes drastic marine oxygen declines by collyw on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:35AM (#19252824)
I can't help but think all the suggested hacks around climate change are a bad option. We never expected that burning fossil fuels would have such a potentially catastrophic effect on our environment. I imagine that many of the solutions will have similar unintended consequences.
Re:Widespread and sometimes drastic marine oxygen declines by FranciscusG on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:47AM (#19253792)
Actually we did expect that. 160-odd years ago, people started to suspect trouble ahead and many decades ago, the writing was clearly on the wall, scientifically speaking.