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New paper! 🧪 How can we work at the interface between climate science and evolutionary anthropology, to understand the complex feedbacks between cultural systems and climate change? It turns out that the answer might involve some ecological modeling!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems - Nature Communications
Here, the authors propose how climate change archaeology can explain how cultural systems impact interactions between humans and the environment, and vice versa, presenting a framework based in c...
www.nature.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Don’t forget the microbial loop…and respiration…

I teach this in Biological Oceanography every year. Dropping a buffet to the seafloor ≠ sequestration.
A lot of folks (who didn't study oceanography in school) have suggested growing seaweed, and then sinking it to the ocean floor, could be a big climate solution.

Not so fast. The ocean carbon cycle is more complicated than you might think.

www.science.org/content/arti...
Can dumping seaweed on the sea floor cool the planet? Some scientists are skeptical
“I think it’s nonsense,” one expert says
www.science.org
September 1, 2024 at 3:52 PM