Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
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Re: Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
#2Not a scientist or otherwise expert, but this seems like a silver lining in the climate change that will eventually lead to humans not being able to inhabit the planet and the impact people are having on the planet: plants get more food and grow more. Am I wrong in that thought?
Re: Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
#3Did anybody else expect this? Plants love CO2, seems like excess will lead to crazy plant growth and a rebalance.
Re: Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
#4Not a scientist or otherwise expert, but this seems like a silver lining in the climate change that will eventually lead to humans not being able to inhabit the planet and the impact people are having on the planet: plants get more food and grow more. Am I wrong in that thought?
Plants get more carbon, but not more minerals or elements that are only in the soil. And that may mean more volume, maybe more calories, but less food.
That, even if we assume that we get to an stable and livable weather plateau, and not an ever increasing global warming, extreme weather, and livable conditions for every animal and plant.
And even in that plateau, if the ecosystem that make that plants to live (I don't know, bees, worms, bacteria and so on) don't make it the plants won't be good for long neither.
Re: Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
#5From the article, the study assumes that COS is released primarily from plants. Are there any industrial processes that could be releasing this as a byproduct? The claim seems like it could be better tested by measuring COS in a controlled atmosphere.
Re: Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
#6I have been noticing were I live, it has been getting greener and greener for many years 30+. First time I saw conformation on this.
Re: Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
#7The link in the article to the original Nature paper is broken. Anyone have a valid link?
Re: Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
#8Aquatic plants and algae are accounting for many times more usage . . . co2 dissolves into fresh and saline waters worldwide
Re: Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
#9The link in the article to the original Nature paper is broken. Anyone have a valid link?
There's an extra period at the end of the URL. Works if you take it off. Alternately, here's a DOI permalink: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22030
Re: Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
#10Did anybody else expect this? Plants love CO2, seems like excess will lead to crazy plant growth and a rebalance.
So far it's the first confirmed case of negative feedback from global warming that I've seen, and that makes me hopeful.