Pompeo downplays climate change, suggests 'people move to different places'

[paleotn]

55. Acidity, depth......etc.

The fact that much of the soils in the far north contain vast quantities of partially decayed plant matter, particularly evergreen needles, thus very high levels of acidity. Secondly, due to relatively recent glaciation events, many northern soils are very thin to extremely thin. And not just to subsoil....to bedrock. Yellowknife is a prime example. Of course we could expend vast amounts of CO2, to transport in lime, chem fert, formed topsoil and other missing materials, plus greatly increasing the natural CO2 release from all that partially decayed organic matter deposited over millennia...but what the hell...3,4 or 8 degrees of warming....who's counting?