Could global warming-fueled ‘compost bomb’ destroy the world?
Climate scientists tend to focus on warming levels, not rates. But peat soils contain from 400 billion to a trillion metric tons of carbon. Warming of 1.8 degrees F (1 degree C) per decade would release peat’s carbon into the atmosphere. GR
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