The Arctic temperature continues to rise, will the germs in the frozen soil recover?Existing this possibility
Author:Scientific belief Time:2022.07.10
Global warming is continuing. For us, it may not be obvious, but in some cold areas, the climate change brought by continuous global warming is very significant.
Taking the Antarctic continent as an example, the high temperature of minus 26.3 ° C was recorded at the Antarctic Kunlun Scientific Examination Station of my country. In the same period of the previous year, the temperature of the Antarctic Kunlun science station was around minus 60 ° C. It triggered a direct consequence, that is, in the "Grenze Kangge Glacier" in the Southern Ectular Island, a giant ice shelf with an area of 1,200 square kilometers collapsed. scene. This is the farthest Antarctic in the human activity area, and the situation of the North Pole is even more serious. In the coldest town in the northern hemisphere, "Wilkwinsk", people even recorded the highest temperature of 38 ° C.
38 ° C, this is within the range of the Arctic.
The temperature in the Arctic region has continued to rise, which has brought many changes to the Arctic region. The most direct is the melting of glaciers and snow. In many areas of the Arctic that were originally covered by ice and snow, naked rocks have now appeared. If the exposure of rocks is not the most serious, then the appearance of paleomantic wreckage should attract enough attention. I believe that you must have heard a lot of similar reports in recent years. For example, after the melting of the frozen soil, the body of the mammoth elephant has been discovered. The preservation is intact, and even the fur on the body is not destroyed. For paleontologists, this may be a joyful thing, but for the entire human beings, this needs to be vigilant.
Since the body of the paleontology can be stored well under the frozen soil layer, will the melting of the frozen soil layer still cause the recovery of some other small creatures? Such as germs. Theoretically there is indeed this possibility.
For humans and other mammals, it is basically impossible to resurgence after being frozen, because our body structure is too complicated, frozen can cause the internal organs cells in the body It will kill us completely, so the "freezing remains" that are popular now is basically a farce, or it can be said to be a psychological comfort, because artificial frozen is more resurrected than natural frozen. Because we do not allow frozen lives, the freezing remains It was dead before frozen, why can you die?
For complex life forms, being frozen is equivalent to being killed, but for simple life forms such as bacteria and viruses, it is another matter.
Because the structure of these microorganisms itself is extremely simple, freezing does not cause their bodies to be fatal damage, so they probably have a probability that they will recover after thawing. Of course, there is evidence. In 2016, a famous Morcete epidemic occurred in the Armaal region of the Arctic. At that time, a large number of Morgehe was infected with anthracnocobacteria, and the condition spread rapidly, which eventually led to more than 2,000 Morcete Death. Frozen reindeer for many years. A reindeer who was infected with anthracnogen was frozen for 75 years in the ground. After thawing, the anthurium in the corpse recovered and caused the epidemic.
Since anthracnogen bacteria can still be recovered after 75 years of frozen, we also believe that it can still be activated for longer for a longer freeze. Since anthurium can be achieved, then other germs may naturally do it.
Therefore, if there are some bacteria and viruses that can cause pathogenic under the frozen soil layer, they may have recovered again with the melting of the frozen soil layer, and what will their recovery eventually bring? Humans cannot predict. In fact, no matter whether there are ancient germs in the frozen soil layer, or whether these germs will threaten human health, we should pay attention to the global warming problem. After all, this problem has effectively affected the other animals on the earth. Survive.
The most powerful creature in the Arctic is polar bears, and they are also animals that are the most affected by climate warming.
The most direct impact of climate warming to polar bears is the reduction of food, so in 2020, the news of polar bears hunting and killing the reindeer can be reported. You know, the reindeer can never be in the recipe of the polar bear because the climate warms the climate warming, because the climate warming the climate warming So that they could not get enough food from the ocean, and had to go to land to hunt. If these cannot attract enough attention, then the polar bear may be our tomorrow. In fact, the key to environmental problems that are difficult to attract attention is that the impact of environmental deterioration is too slow. This is like a small asteroid. Come down, but if this asteroid did not hit after 100 years, few people may be willing to eat less pieces of meat for it.
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