Maggie's Farm

The nitrogen, N, in fertilizers does cause problems. In the soil it is fine but from there it gets into water and flows to lakes and oceans where it promotes plant growth far beyond natural limits.

The long term effects are not understood but are almost certainly harmful. And the use of artificial fertilizers with high amounts of N keeps growing all around the world.

I personally doubt there is much to the other cited effects, such as upon ozone.

The clear approach is to develop different fertilizers which reduce the runoff problem. That is a research problem not a reason for world-wide political control. But the latter is what we will get if governments can achieve it.

Letting the UN or some other world agency take on the N problem will lead to nothing except huge numbers of bureaucrats devouring high salaries and expenses for a decade. And universities will ask for and get new, hundred-million-dollar labs to study it all.

After a decade the new masters of nitrogen will issue a report saying matters are dire. And "May we have some more, Sir? Much more, Sir"

The article pretty much hits the nail on the head. Everyone quoted wants a deal like the IPCC and governments gave to those saying CO2 doomed us all.

That is, they want twenty years of funding with no serous questions asked.

Notice they use the term "climate abatement."
i.e. a climate itself is bad and must be constrained.