Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds

NASA ^ | April 26, 2016

[z3n]

410 PPM is a completely insignificant number......and only 5% of that is man made.

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...and implied in all this is that CO2 is a compound with a significant greenhouse effect.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Democrats would have been better off calling climate change pollution"

Too direct and specific. Democrats prefer to couch their ideas in vague terms which lack specific context. This not only helps to mask their true intentions can be redefined later when the political winds change, which they often do. Abortion is referred to as "choice". Socialism is "progress". Balkanization through mass illegal immigration is "tolerance", while opposition to it is "racism". Whatever the case, specifics are avoided because liars prefer to generalize.

[Rebelbase]

Climate Change is turning the earth in to a jungle. We’re all gonna die in 11 years!

[Bubba_Leroy]

Gosh, carbon dioxide is actually good for plants? Who ever would have thunk it?

It is almost as if carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, but is instead a trace gas naturally occurring in the atmosphere, which is necessary for the continued existence of all life on Earth.

[DownInFlames]

Mr. Obvious here, ok kiddies, what do plants suck up? That’s right CO2, and what do they produce? O2. If didn’t learn this in middle school on, you’re a MORON.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

All life is carbon-based.

It is a proven fact that plants, including trees and all our food crops, are capable of growing much faster at higher levels of CO2 than present in the atmosphere today. Even at the today’s concentration of 400 ppm plants are relatively starved for nutrition. The optimum level of CO2 for plant growth is about 5 times higher, 2000 ppm, yet the alarmists warn it is already too high. They must be challenged every day by every person who knows the truth in this matter. CO2 is the giver of life and we should celebrate CO2 rather than denigrate it as is the fashion today.

We are witnessing the “Greening of the Earth” as higher levels of CO2, due to human emissions from the use of fossil fuels, promote increased growth of plants around the world. This has been confirmed by scientists with CSIRO in Australia, in Germany, and in North America. Only half of the CO2 we are emitting from the use of fossil fuels is showing up in the atmosphere. The balance is going somewhere else and the best science says most of it is going into an increase in global plant biomass. And what could be wrong with that, as forests and agricultural crops become more productive? - Should We Celebrate Carbon Dioxide?

[TBP]

NO! That is not allowed to be true! Not allowed!

[Telepathic Intruder]

True. CO₂ levels were much higher in the age of the dinosaurs, and jungles were huge. They covered the whole planet all the way to the poles. Animals that ate the plants also benefitted, therefore. Who are the science deniers that say nature doesn't thrive with high levels of CO₂?

[YogicCowboy]

I knew this in 10th Grade Biology - in 1972.

[daniel1212]

Climate Change is turning the earth in to a jungl

We on the Garden thread like our jungles.