NASA: Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds

NASA ^ | April 26, 2016

[Jeff Chandler]

I think I’ll go breathe on my tangelo tree.

[grundle]

The above article appears at http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth/

I meant to put Nature link at the end of the article, not at the beginning. My oops.

[Blueflag]

9th grade biology taught me the same thing.

In 1969.

It’s the carbon cycle

[Paladin2]

Who screwed up North Africa and Arabia?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I read one globull warming story that tried to paint increased carbon dioxide levels as bad by saying that poison ivy would grow faster. As if no other plant would.

[sagar]

I thought green was good. If so, keep the carbon footprint high. I will turn on a few of my tungsten lights and keep them all night.

[left that other site]

Biology 101.

Photosynthesis.

Plants love CO2.

We breathe it out, plants breathe it in, and exhale Oxygen for our breathing pleasure.

It has worked that way for a long, long time.

Plants in the home or office make the air nicer.

CO2=GOOD

Or at least this is what I have always been taught until recently.

[AFreeBird]

So Carbon is actually good for all things “green”!?

Things that make you go.... ‘weeee doggies’

[EvilCapitalist]

Wasn’t it called Photosynthesis? Plants take in carbon dioxide to make food, and return give off oxygen.

[Chode]

[JPJones]

This confirms another study Donohue 2013.

Year after year, planet Earth hits record crop yields.

NASA ought to inform the EPA re this study:

Co2 is NOT a pollutant.

It’s plant food.

[butlerweave]

but the EPA says Carbon Dioxide is a Pollutant

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Who screwed up North Africa and Arabia?”

Muslims? ;)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, we can’t have THAT!

DE-FUND NASA! HERETICS!

Oh, wait...

*SMIRK*

[JPJones]

“but the EPA says Carbon Dioxide is a Pollutant”

Those at the EPA are idiots.

[thulldud]

but the EPA says Carbon Dioxide is a Pollutant

Amend that to: Some people's Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant.

[FirstFlaBn]

The lefties ought to be happy - grass grows faster; illegals working for lawn services have more work.

[Paladin2]

Good guess. And true for the non-horticultural situations.

I think the Romans salted a buncha places and then there was deforestation by somebody. Plus Global Warming or sumthin'.

[exDemMom]

The gas, which traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere, has been increasing since the industrial age due to the burning of oil, gas, coal and wood for energy and is continuing to reach concentrations not seen in at least 500,000 years.

And thank God for that. At the rate that carbon dioxide has been disappearing over the last several million years, there will not be enough CO2 to support life within the next hundred million years or so. Our returning CO2 back into the air via burning of fossil fuels is delaying the extinction of all life on earth.