Matt Field from Bulletin of Atomic Scientists suggests we may wait in vain for the U.S. government to change its position on Climate Change. The naysayer lobby is too entrenched, he says, to change a decades old stance. Therefore we must look to our biologists for answers. However we need to think laterally. There may be a role for mammoth microbes and other life forms in our salvation.
Mammoth Microbes and What Happens Now
Farming carbon dioxide-eating microbes is not as bizarre at it seems at first. Silicon Valley-based NovoNutrients is already using untreated greenhouse gas from a cement factory to grow microbes. It wants to turn them into protein-rich food for aquaculture it calls Novomeal.
There is more to this than meets the eye. Fish farming is a $232 billion industry chasing increased demand for renewable tuna, salmon, and other fish. NovoNutrients thinks one cement plant could meet a third of global demand for fish meal. However, we won’t solve global warming that way, we need more ways across the globe.
A Minor Use for Microbes Mammoths Up Next
The use of mammoth microbes may also not be absurd as we think. There are credible attempts to breed mammoths from DNA harvested as the ice caps melt. After all they are little more than large woolly elephants able to resist the icy cold while browsing on frozen tundra. Now imagine if we could DNA them back to life …
Those frozen tundra are an immense ‘carbon sink’ holding vast amounts of carbon dioxide under the ice. Scientists worry this greenhouse gas will release into the atmosphere when the ice has flowed away into the oceans. However, we might be able to prevent this happening by puncturing through the remaining ice to help the earth below remain frozen.
We researched and discovered adult mammoths weighed as much as eight tons and left footprints as wide as eighteen inches. These would be about perfect for punching through permafrost. Come on mammoth microbes and others, your time to shine could be now.
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