Role of Aerosolized Coal Fly Ash in the Global Plankton Imbalance: Case of Florida's Toxic Algae Crisis

Red tide is the term used in Florida (USA) and elsewhere to describe a type of marine harmful algal
bloom (HAB) that grows out of control and produces neurotoxins that adversely affect humans, birds,
fish, shellfish, and marine mammals. HABs are becoming more abundant, extensive, and closer to
shore, and longer in duration than any time in recorded history. Our objective is to review the effects
the multifold components of aerosolized coal fly ash as they relate to the increasing occurrences of
HABs. Aerosolized coal fly ash (CFA) pollutants from non-sequestered coal-fired power plant
emissions and from undisclosed, although “hidden in plain sight,” tropospheric particulate
geoengineering operations are inflicting irreparable damage to the world’s surface water-bodies and
causing great harm to human health (including lung cancer, respiratory and neurodegenerative
diseases) and environmental health (including major die-offs of insects, birds and trees). Florida’s
ever-growing toxic nightmare of red tides and blue-green algae is a microcosm of similar activity
globally. Atmospheric deposition of aerosol particulates, most importantly bioavailable iron, has
drastically shifted the global plankton community balance in the direction of harmful algae and
cyanobacterial blooms in fresh and salt water. Proposed geoengineering schemes of iron fertilization
of the ocean would only make a bad situation unimaginably worse. Based on the evidence presented
here, the global spread of harmful algae blooms will only be contained by rapidly reducing particulate
air pollution both by implementation of universal industrial particulate-trapping and by the immediate
halting of jet-sprayed particulate aerosols. Corrective actions depend not only on international
cooperation, but on ending the deadly code of silence throughout government, academe, and media
on the subject of ongoing tropospheric aerosol geoengineering. Long-standing weather control,
climate intervention, and geoengineering operations have come to threaten not only all humans but
the entire web of life on Earth.