There is a lot of heat on the continent. From the northwest and wildfires, collapsing ice shelves in Canada, deadly storms in the Midwest and devastating storms and tornadoes in the East. None of this is good news and the degree of severity is growing. There have never been category 3 tornadoes within a hurricane.
What does it take for the USA to realize they are on the wrong path in several areas, be it climate or COVID there doesn't seem to be clear and concise decisions being made that directs Americans to reduce the danger in their lives.
Viruses are part of the mandate for ending the climate crisis. It is known that warming provides OPPORTUNITY for microorganisms to grow and become real problems.
This is from "Physics.org." It is not a horror article, it is about facts and science and the proof that ancient organisms frozen in the permafrost for millennia can actually become active again when warmed to a temperature that permits replication.
..."When you put a seed into soil (click here) that is then frozen for thousands of years, nothing happens," said Jean-Michel Claverie, an emeritus professor of genomics at the School of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University in France.
"But when you warm the earth, the seed will be able to germinate," he added. "That is similar to what happens with a virus."
Claverie's lab has successfully revived Siberian viruses that are at least 30,000 years old.
These reanimated bugs only attack amoebas, but tens of thousands of years ago there were certainly others that aimed higher up the food chain.
"Neanderthals, mammoths, woolly rhinos all got sick, and many died," said Claverie. "Some of the viruses that caused their sicknesses are probably still in the soil."...
When a scientist studys the climate and the crisis it is in right now, these viral scenarios always come up. Why? Because as a scientist the climate crisis has many feedback loops, most are negative, and very few are positive. No matter how one looks at the issues within the world's permafrost there simply is no good scenario that comes from it.
