The South Pole is covered with a white expanse of snow, and under the snow is not land, but a large glacier up to a kilometer thick, so in the South Pole, it is impossible to have the element "fire" in any case.
But recently, German scientists have studied plant fossils found in Antarctica, showing that 75 million years ago, the entire Antarctic continent seemed to have a protracted large fire, large enough to cause a turning point in the ecological environment of the Antarctic continent, the results of the study were published in the authoritative journal "Polar Research" on October 27.
These fossils prove two things: 75 million years ago, in the Cretaceous Period, the Antarctic was warm and the vegetation coverage was high; after the Cretaceous Period, climate change led to large-scale fires on the Antarctic continent, and the entire ecological environment of the earth underwent major changes.
This protracted fire may have witnessed the turning point of Antarctica from forest to glacier:
Fires burned vegetation, continents drifted away, the composition of the air and oceans changed, climate temperatures became extreme, and topography changed, eventually transforming the Antarctic continent from green forests into endless white glaciers.
So the question is, is it possible for Antarctica to change from glaciers to forests again?
In fact, until now, the antarctic continent's climate and environment have been changing, with Earth's climate seemingly starting to warmer and a large number of glaciers melting, especially in recent decades.
For example, the Thwaites Glacier, known as the "Doomsday Glacier", is now melting at an alarming rate.
Why is it called the "Doomsday Glacier"? Because the thickness of the Thwaites Glacier is 4,000 meters and covers an area of nearly 10,000 square kilometers, many people do not understand what this concept is, and the flat area alone is equivalent to a Guangdong Province.
Scientists have calculated that if the glacier melts, sea levels will rise by 65 centimeters, and the pot of accelerated melting of this "doomsday glacier" has been buckled to the barbaric development and disorderly emissions of humans, but recent research shows that we seem to look too high on ourselves:
The crust in which the glacier is located is so thin that heat from the Earth's interior is roasting it like it's on a barbecue grill.
The crust is not a traditional continuous plate up to 40,000 meters thick, there are many rift valley systems, the thickness of the crust is only about 20,000 meters, and with the interaction of hot and cold contact, a large number of cracks have begun to appear, and the huge heat from the earth's interior is spreading upward along these cracks, to make an inappropriate analogy, just like the "Doomsday Glacier" has been on the barbecue grill, and the fire has just risen, and the baking has just begun...
Therefore, it is not necessarily the chaotic discharge pot of the barbaric development of human beings, but the comprehensive factors such as crustal movement, cosmic radiation, geographical location, and geothermal energy.
The reasons we can put aside for the time being, but it is undeniable that the rise of sea level will have a huge negative impact on human production and life, and once the glacier melts in a large area, coastal central cities such as New York, Tokyo, and Shanghai will no longer exist...
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