Should we just forget about climate change?

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Originally Posted by Marc Paolella

It has now been shown that agriculture is possible in permafrost areas. Warming could enhance agricultural production in northern zones heretofore unthinkable. Siberia, Canada, Alaska, etc. Another possible good effect of climate change. That's the key to dealing with it. Discovering ways to to exploit it!

In permafrost areas agriculture is certainly possible indoors, inside greenhouses using amended soil that has been shipped in or using indoor hydroponics. Have you come across evidence of agriculture happening in the arctic outside of greenhouses in the existing permafrost medium?

To the best of my knowledge they can't grow much of anything in the raw medium of permafrost areas because it isn't actually viable soil. There is no topsoil, it's a frozen lichenous desert, mostly all rock tables and pulverized glacial rock with a layer of lichens and acid peat over top. Not many things can grow in acid peat without millions of tons of many different kinds of soil amendments brought in to mix into the arctic medium to make it viable.

I know there is evidence of many lush plants having grown in the arctic before the ice age. But people forget that when the last great ice age happened those glaciers from the north covered the northern hemisphere, the glaciers bulldozed all the viable soil out of the north and pushed it all south. When the glaciers receded all that was left in the arctic north was rock and water.

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[whogo]

My biggest environmental concern is the bees.

The global warming idiots have drowned out real problems.

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The climate will change regardless what humans do.

Adapt or die.

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Originally Posted by Marc Paolella

Maybe less sea ice can be helpful. Maybe we should, as I've always said, consider the fact that climate change will be good for the planet.

Of course, the ecofascist anti-Capitalist SJWs can't conceive of that, they just keep pouring on the Armageddon.

But maybe we are learning some things:

Sustainable Ecosystems and Community News: Melting sea ice may lead to more life in the sea


Now, this won't help with gender equality, a key environmental concern, but more life in the sea usually leads to more life everywhere.

The powers that be woudln't let me rep this post. However I agree with it.

I'm not sure if the ice is melting in a sustained way or if it's cyclical. Likely it's a reaction to the end of the Ice Age. Given that ice is generally present in high latitudes the melt is slower than it was when New York City was buried under ice and Long Island was formed as a glacial moraine. Yet melt it inevitably does until the next Ice Age kicks in.

None of this will help gender or transexual rights though. I guess the SJW's will have to look elsewhere.