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An Effective Climate Change Solution May Lie In Rocks Beneath Your Feet

Rocks play a critical role in keeping Earth’s long-term climate stable and cycling carbon dioxide between land, oceans and the atmosphere. But because the process of rock weathering operates over millions of years, it is too weak to offset modern global warming from human activities.

One Climate Big Idea Champion Benjamin Houlton explains why Earth’s climate has remained so stable over geological time.

Via The Conversation

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