Posted on 10/08/2025 11:39:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.
STATE OF SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Across vast stretches of farmland in southern Brazil, researchers at a carbon removal company are attempting to accelerate a natural process that normally unfolds over thousands or millions of years.
The company, Terradot, is spreading tons of volcanic rock crushed into a fine dust over land where soybeans, sugar cane and other crops are grown. As rain percolates through the soil, chemical reactions pull carbon from the air and convert it into bicarbonate ions that eventually wash into the ocean, where the carbon remains stored.
The technique, known as “enhanced rock weathering,” is emerging as a promising approach to lock away carbon on a massive scale. Some researchers estimate the method has the potential to sequester billions of tons of carbon, helping slow global climate trends. Other major projects are underway across the globe and have collectively raised over a quarter-billion dollars.
As governments around the world fall woefully short of their emissions reduction targets, there is a growing consensus that large-scale carbon removal will be necessary to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change. An analysis conducted by an international team of researchers estimated that the world may need to remove up to 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide a year by 2050 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — an amount greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions of the United States.
Shawn Benner, a hydrogeologist and geochemist who left Boise State University after more than two decades to join Terradot, said he made the decision by asking himself what his grandchildren would want him to do. “Not too many people have the opportunity to change the temperature of the...”
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If the left has their way there will be enough carbon left for only about 500K people.
Why not just sow the soil with salt?
To sell worthless pieces of paper to the gullible.
This is just the "indulgences" of centuries ago, writ large.
After Brazil has clear cut their Eucalyptus forests to provide Americans with premium toilet paper. Really. You can’t make this stuff up!
It is not polite to fool Mother Nature. Not one of us is smart enough. It will undoubtably not turn out as expected.
https://www.geomar.de/fileadmin/content/entdecken/ozean_als_klimasch%C3%BCtzer/carbon_uptake/carbon_seafloor/PERBAS_Fact_Sheet_Eng.pdf
Leave the damn earth alone~!
Or at least we hope they can't.
A little ice age would be bad.
Snowball Earth would be much worse.
These people really really want a new intercontinental glaciation! Not willing to wait for the next natural one.
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.
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!
Plant some trees if you want to capture carbon, instead of deforesting your country.
Idiots.
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?.............................
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.
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?
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.
As usual.
Agreed.
Agreed.
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