Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by am1on on Monday June 06, 2022 @07:28AM
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CO2 is plant food
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Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by masklinn on Monday June 06, 2022 @07:32AM
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The primary limiting factor on plant growth is not generally CO2. You can know that by observing that CO2 is not really what fertilizers concern themselves with.
Water, nitrogen, and micronutrients, tend to be the big issues. Existing plants deal fairly well with around 200~250ppm CO2 because that's been the concentration for the last 20 million years.
Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by betwixthewires on Monday June 06, 2022 @10:01AM
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For individual ecosystems or individual plants, yes, the limiting factor is nitrogen fixing in the soil. For the global biosphere however, the limiting factor to the creation of biomass (via photosynthesis) is carbon dioxide availability.
Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by Kelteseth on Monday June 06, 2022 @07:38AM
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So is water. Trees simply do not grow if they not have water to generate new bark. We've had severe (for German standards) droughts the last few years here in Germany. All in all, the climate forecast for the upcoming years is currently: Less rain in the summer and more rain in the winter, which is also bad [1].
[1] https://www.klima-warnsignale.uni-hamburg.de/der-klimawandel...
Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by oneoff786 on Monday June 06, 2022 @07:29AM
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So are dead humans
Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by _fizz_buzz_ on Monday June 06, 2022 @09:05AM
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It's possible that higher CO2 levels are going to be great for some plants, however higher temperatures (with all the resulting consequences) will definitely be terrible for humans.
Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by philjohn on Monday June 06, 2022 @07:35AM
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Shame lots of plants have been cut down in the lungs of the earth, the rainforests of South America.
Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by nannal on Monday June 06, 2022 @08:04AM
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I was of the understanding oceanic alge were much more responsible for oxygenation than any form flora. Not to down play the importance of trees of course.
Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by philjohn on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @05:12PM
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But are they susceptible to changes in ocean temperature (either up, or down)?
Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by JohnJamesRambo on Monday June 06, 2022 @08:43AM
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The plants aren’t using it nearly fast enough or the graph wouldn’t be going up and accelerating.