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Will all those 1500 Gigatons be released when the permafrost melts?
by konschubert 7y ago
Will all those 1500 Gigatons be released when the permafrost melts?
- simonh 7y agoI wouldn't think so, simply being melted doesn't mean it's released, but the decay processes triggered by the melting and now apparently wildfires will start eating into it. It's likely very difficult to predict what proportion would eventually be released and over what time frame. However it wouldn't take much in the grand scheme of things to negate any reductions in CO2 release we manage to make as a civilization, more or less maintaining the total current CO2 release levels indefinitely. That's a pretty worrying scenario by itself.