Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected

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• dmix 29 minutes ago
  TIL about silicate weathering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate%E2%80%93silicate_cyc...

  silicate rocks basically traps co2 over millions of years and causes temperatures to fall

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  • prawn 2 minutes ago
    There are various companies/projects set up around that idea:

    https://www.lithoscarbon.com/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbfix

    https://co2crc.com.au/

    https://sgeas.unimelb.edu.au/research/carbon-trap-lab
• wglb 2 hours ago
  Paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525919123