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Mineral dust sprinkled in oceans could absorb vast amounts of carbon: study

2013-01-22 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Sprinkling billions of tonnes of mineral dust across the oceans could quickly remove a vast quantities of climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a new study. The proposed "geoengineering" technique would also offset the acidification of the oceans and could be targeted at endangered coral reefs, but it would require a mining effort on the same scale as the world's coal industry and would alter the biology of the oceans. "It certainly is not a simple solution against...

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