Can giving the ocean an antacid help slow climate change?
The strategy is inspired by the natural process of chemical weathering of rocks, where rain, which is slightly acidic, “weathers” or erodes the surface of rocks and minerals, and then transfers that alkalinity to the ocean through runoff. .. It is a process that occurs with or without human intervention, but on geological time scales. “We need something much faster than nature can generate at the moment,” Rau said. According Dear All by the National Academies of Sciences, even if the global community meets its emissions reduction targets, by 2050 it will still need to remove an additional 10 gigatonnes…
