Extremely misleading title.
It isn't a weapon that can be used to fight CO2 emissions.
Its a pre existing carbon natural sink which:
“If we don’t protect it and manage it correctly, it could actually worsen climate change.”
Is actually a vulnerable resource that needs to be better managed. That's the last line of the article.
No where in the article is there any even theoretical discussion of how seafloor habitats can somehow be made to absorb more CO2, closest the article comes to that is 'we should look into how to do that.'
The rest of the article is about dangers to disrupting the natural habitat and thus negating a carbon sink.
This is not a story about a weapon, an arrow in a quiver aimed at climate change, its a story about a delicate exposed heel, which might actually end up being pierced by a different climate change weapon, offshore wind farms.
