Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth

The Washington Post ^ | October 8, 2025 6:00 a.m. EDT | Kate Selig

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Another day, another global warming scam.

[Tell It Right]

If the left has their way there will be enough carbon left for only about 500K people.

[9YearLurker]

Why not just sow the soil with salt?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "Terradot is a Stanford-based startup that uses crushed silicate rock on farmland to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It has raised $58.2 million in funding and signed deals with Google and Frontier to sell carbon removal credits."And Microsoft, by the way.

To sell worthless pieces of paper to the gullible.

This is just the "indulgences" of centuries ago, writ large.

[blackdog]

After Brazil has clear cut their Eucalyptus forests to provide Americans with premium toilet paper. Really. You can’t make this stuff up!

[timza]

It is not polite to fool Mother Nature. Not one of us is smart enough. It will undoubtably not turn out as expected.

[rfp1234]

That's nothing compared to the German plan to use the bottom of the ocean...

https://www.geomar.de/fileadmin/content/entdecken/ozean_als_klimasch%C3%BCtzer/carbon_uptake/carbon_seafloor/PERBAS_Fact_Sheet_Eng.pdf

[Bullish]

Leave the damn earth alone~!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They probably can't do it.

Or at least we hope they can't.

A little ice age would be bad.

Snowball Earth would be much worse.

[Reily]

These people really really want a new intercontinental glaciation! Not willing to wait for the next natural one.

[yesthatjallen]

I suspect they know man made global warming hasn’t panned out and the earth may be headed for a cooling period (I recently posted an article about the Sun’s decreasing output). To save themselves from having to admit they were wrong, they came up with a new scheme they now claim will cool the Earth and they can call themselves heroes.

[metmom]

Give me global warming.

Longer growing seasons and lower heating bills rock!

And the earth was teeming with life when the climate was far warmer.

Bring it on!

[metmom]

Plant some trees if you want to capture carbon, instead of deforesting your country.

Idiots.

[Red Badger]

In another couple of billion years, give or take a millennia or two, the Sun will become a Red Giant, incinerating everything within the orbit of Mars.

Earth, Moon, Venus, Mercury and everything else within that circle will be reduced to atomic ash.

Then what?.............................

[Sirius Lee]

If a technological civilization can’t engineer a way to migrate to other stars with millions of years of lead time before their sun pukes, then they don’t deserve to continue as a species.

[hal ogen]

What’s wrong with these sociopathic “scientists”? These arrogant dumba**es. How dare they mess with earth that belongs to all of humanity. If their putzing-around causes problems (after a fair trail and found guilty) will they be hanged in public?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In the 1970s, some scientists wanted to mine coal, grind it to dust and spread it on the ice fields to stop THE COMING ICE AGE which was all the scam at that time.

https://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/843652-scientists-wanted-pour-soot-over-arctic.html

[No name given]

As usual.

[No name given]

Agreed.

[No name given]

Agreed.