Why is there so much stored carbon in permafrost areas?

Because there was a full and abundant plant life in these areas prior to the start of the ice age that we are still technically in, that seems to has started, around 2.5 million years ago. The planet would not have gone from a warm, plant-filled with adequate carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to a cold icebound planet in a short period. It would have been much more likely a small start and stop process, which would have cooled the northern and southern areas the quickest, locking in of whatever carbon was in the soils at the time, because the bacteria that had been most responsible for the break-down of the carbon in the now cool soils, would not have been as efficient as today's bacteria, which is now used to being active at lower temperatures as compared to when the soils were generally warmer, one would think that that adaptation would have not come into play until needed! The longer that an area has been frozen and then lightly thaws over and over cause the soils in the permafrost to become supersaturated with water, and if and when it finally thaws out, the area that may have been dry before permafrost started is now turned into a dangerous and swampy area. with all of the organic materials that were in the area prior to the changing climate, are now exposed to a rapid breakdown of these old organic materials into carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere over a relatively short period of time. There are a few questions that I wonder if scientists could find out or may already found out is the bacterial that was in the soils back before the start of the ice ages that we are talking about would still be able to start the breakdown of the carbon that was in the soils millions of years ago? Or if they have been inactive too long to be alive and viable? If this is the case then new bacteria would have to be reintroduced which in theory could delay any decomposition of the organic matter, especially in oxygen-poor soils. Peat can be a by-product of such a condition, which could lock the carbon away for a long period of time. Many variables can come into play and very likely many outcomes can be expected. I know that if large areas of permafrost are ever thawed out the swamps that would be the results, would not be a place I would want to be around when the insects find them! Reach me at the e-mail <danielkadavy212@gmail.com > or by phone in the USA @ 402-890-7946 Thank you and keep spreading the word, Dan. If you wish to read more about how we need to go on about repairing the planet, in only one way and why that is of so much importance, go to my website https://lifecycleofaplanet.blogspot.com 

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