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lapfog_1

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1. I forget the research paper
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 11:26 PM
Sunday

but it proposed that ground up granite ( like from the front edge of an advancing glacier ) helps to grow a stronger and faster growth forest, thus advancing the carbon capture cycle... a similarly, large forest fires free up carbon thus creating more green house gas which causes the glaciers to retreat. A very long cycle. Of course volcanoes and variations in ocean currents play into these same long term cycles of warming and cooling.

Not at all related to what we humans are doing to the planet, of course.

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