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Alchemy Of Salt

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Discovery News reports that global warming is creating salt.

Every day seems to bring another bad piece of news about global warming. Just this month, we found out the oceans are saltier than ever and 2010 will probably be the warmest on record, so it’s clear that we have a serious problem on our hands.

The oceans have been getting saltier for the last few billion years, because rainwater steadily dissolves salts which get washed into the ocean. I’m puzzling over how you turn CO2 in to NaCl ….Any theories?

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