Airborne Microplastics May Be Warming the Planet
speckx
22 points
4 comments
May 05, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
Melatonic
Everyone has been worried about microplastics in water but what about floating in air? I cannot imagine this is good for our lungs. Perhaps we end up with plastic based clouds to even reflect sunlight and combat global warming
MarkusQ
> The warming impact is tiny, far less than the impact of carbon dioxide emissions, and only a fraction of the impact of soot. So...they may be doing something. Or not. But if they are, it's not much. More study is needed to keep this ball in the air.