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Re:Climate Solutions: Is It Feasible to Remove Enough CO2 fr... by zerealshadowban on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:13PM (#18477642)
It is not "misleading" when the scientific evidence collected via NASA's satellites is that CO2 fertilization has been measurably greening the continents for decades: "From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide." [1]

Anyone who studies the biology and evolution of plants, as well as the actual constraints of their growth processes, will understand why this gigantic transformation has been happening. There are similar measurements of major increases in ocean plankton over the last decades.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

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Re:Climate Solutions: Is It Feasible to Remove Enough CO2 fr... by cbkeller on Sunday November 18, 2018 @05:09PM (#18482758)
That's a cool study. CO2 fertilization is a real phenomenon (with some caveats, which I pointed out some of), but I stand by the characterization that it is misleading to use this to suggest that we shouldn't be concerned about (or consider reversing) anthropogenic CO2 emissions, or to suggest that plants are maladapted and struggling without "CO2 concentrations at least 5-10x the current levels". Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria have had plenty of time to evolve carbon concentrating mechanisms [1] to help offset low atmospheric CO2.

My apologies if that isn't what you were doing.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2606764/

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Re:Climate Solutions: Is It Feasible to Remove Enough CO2 fr... by dang on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @12:43AM (#18500411)
Personal attacks, which you posted here and elsewhere, will get your account banned here. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all—regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Climate Solutions: Is It Feasible to Remove Enough CO2 fr... by zerealshadowban on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @01:52PM (#18554431)
While it is correct that this one particular comment of mine was inappropriately posted in anger at (perceived) dishonesty, please substantiate your statement that I have posted personal attacks "here and elsewhere".
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