Trapped methane is not the only climate threat from thawing permafrost. Chemical weathering of fool's gold is also producing more carbon emissions as the Arctic warms. My story for CIC News. 🧪
https://www.cheminst.ca/magazine/article/weathering-of-arctic-rocks-produces-co2-in-climate-feedback-loop/
https://www.cheminst.ca/magazine/article/weathering-of-arctic-rocks-produces-co2-in-climate-feedback-loop/
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This isn’t newsworthy.
Ice cover is less in the summer and more in the winter. Basic physics.