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So then what happens, the microbes eat stuff, more soil is produced, more trees and animals grow, more rain comes, more stuff gets buried, and the cycle repeats
by bamboozled 5y ago
So then what happens, the microbes eat stuff, more soil is produced, more trees and animals grow, more rain comes, more stuff gets buried, and the cycle repeats itself?
Honest question, not refuting anything here just a lot of the articles stop at the melting part, what happens after that?
- useragent86 5y ago
- dTal 5y agoIt's more like microbes eat stuff -> greenhouse gases released -> climate warms -> more permafrost melts -> microbes eat more stuff -> feedback loop which eventually melts all the permafrost and triples the atmospheric carbon -> cataclysmic and permanent disruption of global weather patterns. It's not a cycle, it's a one-way phase transition.
- addled 5y agoThe problem is that which microbes do the job depends on how much oxygen is available. If there's not enough, like when buried, the decomposition is anerobic. This produces a lot more methane than aerobic decomposition.
- bamboozled 5y agoIt’s a problem for people alive today, but the earth will just rinse wash repeat no ?