It would be ironic if it were discovered if are mainly the salt mines what affects the climatological cycles, when the salt, after being consumed and evacuated from our organisms due to the high doses we receive (what damage our kidneys), arrives the rivers and ends up in the oceans increasing their salinity, affecting the heat dissipation and the currents of the whole planet.
Dietary salt yes, but counting all sources of anthropogenic salt (eg road salt) in the USA it's similar to the natural erosion rate. In other words we've roughly doubled the total salinity of American rivers.
The ocean is big so that's still not huge globally, but it can have regional effects.
Wow, I knew that cars and SUVs were destroying the planet because of emissions and pollution and various other factors, but I didn't even think about how road salt (only necessary because of cars) was also making things even worse.
