The debate in Tradewinds about scrubbers is just fascinating in its lack of understanding of the urgent demands of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Katowice Climate Change Conference and the Paris Climate agreement.

In the latest, Paul Marsh of Navig8 states that ocean pollution from scrubbers is "completely insignificant".

The scrubber enthusiasts have found a loophole to continue to burn the dirtiest fuel existing in the industrial world — by filtering the exhaust gases and discharging the waste into the oceans.