Posted on 02/27/2020 9:28:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The huge amount of carbon dioxide we are producing and pumping into the Earth's atmosphere is causing much more damage than previously thought.
Rising CO2 levels aren't just responsible not for global warming; they also have a massive impact on the global food system, according to a Science Advances study.
An increase in carbon dioxide can significantly reduce the level of micronutrients in certain plants.
Researchers studied the effects of the gas on rice and it was found to contain significantly less protein, iron, zinc and B vitamins after exposure to the level of carbon dioxide our atmosphere is expected to harbor by the end of the century.
With several billion people on Earth already suffering from malnutrition, the repercussions of this would be devastating.
"Rice is a staple food source for about two billion people — and the poorest of the population obtain over 50% of their daily nutrition in the form of rice," wrote Lewis Ziska, one of the authors of the study."Anything affecting the nutritional quality of rice will have serious effects."
The researchers point out that previous studies focused mainly on how climate change would change the cultivation of crops. "The quality of the plants and their nutrient content are just as important," says Ziska.
Ziska and his colleagues exposed rice fields planted for research purposes in China and Japan to increased carbon dioxide levels.
In doing so, they used values that, according to experts, will appear worldwide in this century as a result of humans.
The majority of the 18 test rice varieties contained significantly less protein, zinc, and iron than the rice cultivated today.
The researchers found that the content of Vitamins B1, B2, B5 and B9 has decreased dramatically in all varieties. However, the rice contained more Vitamin E.
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Exactly-
The people who wrote the article are a danger to my existence and must be destroyed
Why don’t they just say that rising carbon dioxide causes pimples and acne? And then say it causes hair to grow on one’s palms.
Is that why, back when CO2 was 1000 ppm, there were giant dinosaurs running around?
I believe all the GMO crops are less nutritious
WRONG!
Just what is with these anti-science, anti-logic, leftist, eco-nut nitwits? Is supposed “climate change” responsible for everything bad in the universe? Will we all die in the next 10 minutes! OH, the huge manatee!!!!!!
I wonder if that’s gonna affect my marijuana plants growing out in the back 40. Guess I better get out and fertilize them as soon as possible.
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