Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected
20 points by wglb 2 hours ago | 2 comments

dmix 12 minutes ago
TIL about silicate weathering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate%E2%80%93silicate_cyc...

silicate rocks basically traps co2 over millions of years and causes temperatures to fall

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wglb 2 hours ago
Paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525919123
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