Earth's ancient life forms are awakening after 40,000 years in permafrost

[–] jobes 2 points (+2|-0)

How do those plants taste?

[–] OeeThaGreat 2 points (+2|-0)

They probably taste like cabbage.

[–] jobes 3 points (+3|-0)

So. ....drop everything, we got some great tasting plants to find !

[–] OeeThaGreat 1 points (+1|-0)

OK, I have 2 plane tickets for the Antarctic. Can you be in Northern Michigan in 3 days?

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[–] doggone 1 points (+1|-0)

Things are looking up!

First land plants plunged Earth into ice age

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21417-first-land-plants-plunged-earth-into-ice-age/

[–] chmod 0 points (+0|-0)

So who was burning all the fossil fuels 40,000 years ago that made it so warm?

[–] smallpond [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

Hothouse earth phases have been caused by natural processes in the past - the current short term heating spike is human induced, and could lead to runaway global heating due to various climatic feedbacks like permafrost melt, deforestation, and arctic sea ice cover.

For the last 10000 years human civilization has thrived in a stable climate - if we had a collective brain we would not want to change that.

Earth's ancient life forms are awakening after 40,000 years in permafrost

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