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Thor Hanson: How Nature Struggles with a Warming Planet

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What Does Fermentation Have to Do With C O Two?

The key to climate change is the fact that some of these plants in nature don't rot. But by putting those cucumbers in a salty brine, we had slowed down their rotting. We'd slowed down their natural sort of decomposition by months and months. If we'd just left them in the compost in the garden, that c o two would have been released months ago. But here it was slowed down in a pickle jar. You can stop it completely if vegetation gets buried and hidden under layers of sediment and rock. That happens in boggy, wet swhere layer upon layer of peat is formed. And it happens on the ocean floor when marine algies die and

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