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So under future climate conditions, these microbes are now starting to come precariously exposed. And in future climate conditions, these microbes that have been dormant, some of these have been dormant since the last ice age. And that was from 2.6 or 2,000, 11,700 years ago. And you may only need a few months to reactivate. And this is a study that was published back in September in the Journal of Geophysical Research. This is a geoscientist. Just drop me. I will point out too, there's another study done where microbes, even viruses, macroviruses, very large viruses that are ancient have been found. And they have been rejuvenated. And so this is just another example of it. These ones here, they've been lying dormant. And if they do, if they shouldn't become reactivated, even for part of a year, scientists are now concerned that this could trigger a feedback loop that would accelerate permafrost, FOSS, and global warming. Global warming from the CO2 that these microbes are now releasing.