>researchers note that the shipping companies' investments in the much-discussed technology, where exhaust gases are "washed" and discharged into the sea, have already been recouped for most of the ships. This means that the industry is now making billions of euros by running its ships on cheap heavy fuel oil instead of cleaner fuel.
>"We see a clear conflict of interest, where private economic interests come at the expense of the marine environment in one of the world's most sensitive seas," says Chalmers
>"If the scrubbers had not existed, no ships today would have been allowed to run on this dirty residual fuel. That is why the scrubber issue is highly relevant to push the shipping industry towards less negative environmental impact," says Lunde Hermansson.
Every time in every way we deliberately mess this up and actually incentivise ecological devastation.
There was many toots some time ago saying how there is way less sulphate aerosols from ships and this is a good thing, and all we did is allow even worse fuels to be burnt as long as they scrubbed them through water and allowed them to dump the toxins into the ocean.
Apparently the plan is to start emitting sulphate aerosols into the atmosphere aka "geoengineering", anything not to ride a bicycle huh ?