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Increasing Levels of CO2 Results in Less Nutritious Crops
Cell Press (via SciTechDaily) ^ | 19 November 2022

Posted on 11/20/2022 9:21:18 AM PST by zeestephen

Elevated levels of CO2 make it difficult for plants to obtain the minerals necessary to grow and provide nutritious food..."Two main nutrients that are essential for human nutrition may be affected by this phenomenon. The first one is proteins built from nitrogen. The second one is iron."

(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: climatechangefraud; co2; crops; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; farming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal
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To: zeestephen

Baloney. CO2 is the life breath of plants. The highest CO2 levels on the planet were the cause of the green world with megafauna supported by megaflora we do not have today.


21 posted on 11/20/2022 9:45:38 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: zeestephen

Experts must be smoking something; was taught CO2 was the basic item for plant photosynthesis, without it they will die.


22 posted on 11/20/2022 9:46:33 AM PST by chopperk
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To: BradyLS

D’oh. Photosynthesis is what I meant...


23 posted on 11/20/2022 9:46:36 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Because modern corn is to make carbs and starch, to feed pigs and cattle to make protein.

If you want carbs eat corn, if you want protein eat a pig.

Simple evolved eating...don’t listen to the people who brought you the food pyramid, they faked that science for simplicity.

https://u.osu.edu/sheep/2018/01/16/what-accounts-for-variability-in-grain-protein-levels-in-corn/


24 posted on 11/20/2022 9:48:46 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Mauna Loa is a huge emitter of CO2, so why do we measure the atmospheric content there?
25 posted on 11/20/2022 9:50:43 AM PST by anoldafvet
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To: zeestephen

Sure, and less air is good for you.


26 posted on 11/20/2022 9:54:28 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: PeterPrinciple

The doubling and tripling of corn yields has much more to do with the hybrid genetically modified strains of maize cultivars than it has to do with carbon dioxide. The plant will continue to synthesize carbohydrates (sugars, starches and the cellulose structures that make up the roots, stalks and leaves), but in a different ratio than the old open-pollinated varieties, which makes for a kernel that may have lower proportion of protein content, but a larger proportion of sugars and starches.


27 posted on 11/20/2022 9:55:12 AM PST by alloysteel (People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do - Isaac Asimov)
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To: zeestephen

During the Mesozoic era (The age of the dinosaurs), the Earth’s atmosphere had much higher CO2 concentration than current day, and that Era which was hundreds of millions of years in length, is noted for the explosion of life and overall warmth planet-wide. There weren’t even any ice caps on the planet, and the daily temps were around 120 degrees F.

Generally speaking, warmth is conflated with life, and to worry about it getting too hot is anti-science. We are never going to have a runaway greenhouse effect on Earth, as seen on Venus. We are too far from the Sun for that to happen.


28 posted on 11/20/2022 9:55:12 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: zeestephen

Bull***t!


29 posted on 11/20/2022 9:56:09 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: hinckley buzzard

And even more importantly increased water hydration in fruits which carry very important vitamin cogeners. Vit C for example has additional cogener molecules that disappear rapidly in dehydrated fruit.


30 posted on 11/20/2022 9:57:53 AM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: zeestephen

So, healthy plants make unhealthy food?

Sure...right...


31 posted on 11/20/2022 9:58:46 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Iceclimber58

We rotated our crops with pasture for our cattle. Still used fertilizer as needed.
Never worried for the CO2 was correct.πŸ€”


32 posted on 11/20/2022 9:59:07 AM PST by RedMonqey
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To: KobraKai
There weren’t even any ice caps on the planet, and the daily temps were around 120 degrees F.

It would take some serious evidence to convince me daytime high temperatures were around a 120 degrees. That is some animal killing heat, when there is a fair amount of humidity in the air.

We only get that kind of heat, now, in desert areas, and very rarely.

Near 90, I could believe that.

With the ice caps gone, and much larger oceans, I would expect the temperatures to be much milder over the whole planet, while averaging higher. Just not as much variation.

Oceans are the great moderator in temperatures.

33 posted on 11/20/2022 10:02:31 AM PST by marktwain
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To: KobraKai
Earth’s climate during the Mesozoic Era was generally warm, and there was less difference in temperature between equatorial and polar latitudes than there is today.
34 posted on 11/20/2022 10:05:01 AM PST by marktwain
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The "settled science" that CO2 is a "greenhouse gas" that causes "climate change" is therefore a complete and utter lie.

Exactly.

And this graph illustrates how a graph can be misleading.

It is a steep increase on the graph, making it look scary.

But the amount of increase is just 10 parts per MILLION, which is almost nothing.

35 posted on 11/20/2022 10:06:09 AM PST by Mogger
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To: anoldafvet
You're grasping at straws because you only accept "science" that gives you the result you want.

Are you saying:

  1. The solubility of CO2 in water is not inversely proportional to temperature?
  2. Ocean temperature does not increase in summer and decrease in winter?
  3. Lava flow/CO2 emission from the volcano is precisely cyclical with the seasons?

36 posted on 11/20/2022 10:08:02 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ.)
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To: Blueflag
Complete poppycock.

Exactly. Plants will take in as much or as little CO2 as they need...regardless of how much there is in the atmosphere.

37 posted on 11/20/2022 10:11:18 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: zeestephen

Years ago, the oceans hadn’t warmed as much as computer models required to prove global warming. The warmists speculated that warm water was locked at the bottom of the sea by the colder water above. Apparently this was the well known scientific principle where warm water sinks and cold water rises.


38 posted on 11/20/2022 10:11:45 AM PST by Roadrunner383 (;)
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To: zeestephen

Rather than reduced crop yields from less, or no, nitrogen fertilizers they will blame it on climate change.

Climate cnange causes everything bad, people. /s


39 posted on 11/20/2022 10:14:22 AM PST by citizen (The pResident On Hot Mic With Florida Official: β€˜No One F**ks With A Biden’)
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To: Mogger
The atmosphere contains 0.04% CO2.

Man is responsible for 3.4% of that 0.04%

The total amount of anthropogenic CO2 In the atmosphere is therefore 0.0014%

Completely eliminate man's contribution and the Earth's atmosphere still contains 0.04% CO2.

40 posted on 11/20/2022 10:15:57 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ.)
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