"It's not all bad news," looking at the increasingly troubling state of Yawgmoth, Niyaguti had to say, "The chances are high that the tundra of the cold zones can be preserved."
The organisms of the polar regions might indeed have a chance to survive. The bacteria and fungal spores carrying the metal-based reverse transcriptase virus are unable to activate in the polar regions. After being infected with the metal-based reverse transcriptase virus, the animals would require higher environmental temperatures and would not migrate to high-latitude regions. Even if they moved erratically and without direction, they would easily be killed by the low temperatures of the high-latitude regions.
The same applies to deep-sea organisms.
However, Niyaguti knew that such matters are not absolute.