Re:Unprecedented North Pole Heat Wave in Progress
by bragh on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:20AM
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Are there any soil biologists around on who can comment on the viability of this? Because as far as I understand, the land under permafrost in Russia is pretty much tundra and in Greenland, it's gravel. So it would take centuries to make it tillable compared to the timescale of decades we have before current breadbaskets lose the production capacity.
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Re:Unprecedented North Pole Heat Wave in Progress
by pimmen on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @07:41AM
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I would also like to hear from biologists or and agricultural scientists. Beneath the frozen tundra, there's vast reserves of natural gas and other fossil fuels, does this indicate that the soil has a lot of nutrients? If animals dies to become fossils, does it indicate lots of animals died there to fertilize the earth?