Posted on 09/24/2019 11:16:06 AM PDT by grundle
On November 3, the U.S. Global Change Research Program released the “Fourth National Climate Assessment,” a 477-page document filled with concern about Earth’s changing climate. The study concluded that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) cause dangerous global warming. But marijuana growers know something that climate scientists apparently don’t know.
The Fourth Assessment is an alarming document that uses the word “extreme” more than 700 times to describe storms, floods, droughts, precipitation, snowfall, temperature and other weather variations. The Assessment concludes: “Reducing net emissions of CO2 is necessary to limit near-term climate change and long-term warming.” Essentially, the report concludes that CO2 emissions are dangerous.
While the Assessment doesn’t call CO2 “pollution,” other parties use the report to do so. The American Academy of Sciences states that the Assessment “reinforces that warming temperatures and extreme weather” are “the result of carbon pollution from human activities.” The Atlantic says that the Assessment confirms that “Climate Change is real. It’s caused by greenhouse gas pollution released by human industrial activity.”
But marijuana growers know that carbon dioxide isn’t pollution. It’s plant food! Any smart cannabis grower pumps carbon dioxide into the greenhouse to make the pot crop grow bigger and faster. Marijuana growers use canisters of CO2 gas and CO2 generators hang from greenhouse rafters to boost crop yields.
Hundreds of peer-reviewed studies show that plants grow bigger with higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. In 2011, Dr. Craig Idso, founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, compiled the results of more than 1,000 scientific papers reporting on CO2 enrichment experiments. He developed estimates of the mean crop growth rate in response to a 300-ppm increase in the level of atmospheric CO2. The data shows that all 92 of the world’s food crops grew larger with increased levels of carbon dioxide. The world’s seven largest food crops, corn, potato, rice, soybean, sugar beet, sugar cane, and wheat, grew between 21 and 66 percent larger in controlled experiments.
Plants get bigger fruits and vegetables, thicker stems, and larger root systems with higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Higher levels of CO2 also make plants more resistant to drought.
The recent rise in atmospheric CO2 that climate scientists fret about is actually greening the Earth. A 2013 study led by Dr. Randall Donahue of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization analyzed plant growth using satellite data. After accounting for changes in precipitation, the study found an eleven percent increase in global leaf area from 1982 to 2010. Most of this increase was attributed to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Rather than a negative, rising levels of atmospheric CO2 must be boosting global agricultural output. If there is one compound that humans can put into nature that is great for the biosphere, carbon dioxide is that compound. But today carbon dioxide is branded “pollution” and every company and every university foolishly tries to reduce CO2 emissions.
The Daily Caller promotes marijuana.
More proof that the commie Left wants to starve us.
Ineffectively, you could add.
CO2 is NOT plant food anymore than O is human food.
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All that CO2 makes the gangia better? Ahnd it’s free?????
woah......
KYPD
CO2, it’s what plants crave.
A subtle distinction when considering what is necessary for life, if I understand your point....so...whats your point?
Large dry ice purchases are tracked because they are probably indoor MJ growers.
CO2 is NOT plant food anymore than O is human food.CO2 is absolutely necessary for plants as is O2 for animals and humans.
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It’s it electrolytes. Like Brawndo.
It should read. The current low levels of CO2 on the earth plants are suffocating. The optimum level of CO2 for plants and animals given oxygen rises proportionally is around 1500 to 2000 ppm CO2.
The left is against CO2 which increases food supply. The left is for solar panels and wind turbines which create hard-to-dispose-of waste when no longer in service. Emotions. No reasoning ability. Criminally insane.
“CO2 is NOT plant food anymore than O is human food”
Yes it is. CO2 is an essential ingredient of photosynthesis, which is how plants produce the nutrients they consume.
6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight = C6H12O6 (glucose) + 6O2
CO2 enrichment can increase plant growth but only until some other plant nutrient becomes the limiting factor. Water, NPK, trace elements, depending on local conditions.
“...cannabis grower pumps carbon dioxide into the greenhouse to make the pot crop grow bigger and faster. Marijuana growers use canisters of CO2 gas and CO2 generators hang from greenhouse rafters to boost crop yields.”
So, There actually IS “man made” global warming! /s
I learned this in fourth grade.
From a science textbook.
Back in the dark ages when “pupils” were “boys” and “girls” and the teacher was a nominally educated adult, not a brainwashed slogan-screeching bipolar brat.
Food for most plants is light.
They also take nutrients from the soil (and fertilizers.)
CO2 is used in the processing of the above. The byproduct is O2. Many pot growers use CO2 cartridges and systems to make the enclosed systems more CO2 rich.
This is nothing new. It’s being going on for years.
I was a math and science nerd. I knew this in grade school.
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