CO2 helps rainforests grow faster: Study shows trees absorb more greenhouse gas than expected

Daily Mail ^ | December 30, 2014 | Richard Gray

[grundle]

Full title: Carbon dioxide emissions help tropical rainforests grow faster: Study shows trees absorb more greenhouse gas than expected

Tropical forests are growing faster than scientists thought due to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

A Nasa-led study has found that tropical forests are absorbing 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year as they photosynthesise and grow.

And this is far more than is absorbed by the vast areas of boreal forest that encircle the Arctic.

As emissions add more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, forests worldwide are using it to grow faster.

[grundle]

"Carbon dioxide is plant food? I am shcoked!"

[BenLurkin]

“Unexpected”

[doc1019]

Nothing like reinventing basic science.

[Cementjungle]

So, if we reduce our CO2 emissions we'll be hurting the rainforests.

SAVE THE RAINFORESTS!!!!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Wait wait wait, but this doesn’t make money for Al Gore.

[logi_cal869]

‘FACE-PALM’

In before Homer...

[FlingWingFlyer]

This means Algore and his hippy dippy envirowackos are trying to kill the rain forests and all of the fuzzy little critters within.

[sitetest]

I once mentioned the possibility of this phenomenon to a hoaxer. He said the idea was idiotic. Lol.

[clearcarbon]

CO2 helps rainforests grow faster: Study shows trees absorb more greenhouse gas than expected

The growing trees produce seeds that become even more trees, so the consumption of CO2 should accelerate with time until there's not enough CO2 or something else they need to grow.

[Delta 21]

They teach me that CO2 is what trees and plants live on, then bitch about me creating to much of it.

[deweyfrank]

Someone should show this to the Pope.

[Balding_Eagle]

SAVE THE RAINFORESTS!!!!

BUILD A COAL PLANT!!!!!!

[Vince Ferrer]

[ilgipper]

Science was my worst subject in high school, and I could have told anyone that. I’ve said many times to people...if we produce more CO2, more trees will grow. Problem solved, with benefits.

[Steely Tom]

If the “science is settled,” how can anything about it be unexpected?

[spokeshave]

‘FACE-PALM’....and save the rain forest for PALM TREE plantations to satisfy greenies desire for "clean oil"

[moose07]

As emissions add more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, forests worldwide are using it to grow faster.

No S#!T Shurlock!

So soon the Oxygen levels will be going out of balance,.....needs another study.

[sickoflibs]

What about when they get flooded due to global warning and then freeze due to global freezing?

Accept climate change or the end is near!

[Omniscient Certitude]

For years, greenhouses that grow certain flower crops have introduced excessive CO2 to improve production. Nothing unexpected.

In another rain forest zone, the forests of Maine and New Hampshire, it is clear that forests are on a runaway growth spurt. I always have attributed it to greenhouse gasses.

[uncitizen]

But, wait! Last week it was bad for the planet that we exhaled too much CO2...