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Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
« on: December 22, 2024, 07:12:15 am »
Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
14 hours ago Eric Worrall 
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The Nutrient Dilution claim is back…

Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already be hurting animals that are grazers

Published: December 21, 2024 12.17am AEDT
Ellen Welti
Research Ecologist, Great Plains Science Program, Smithsonian Institution

More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend on plant-based diets. Plants are a low-calorie food source, so it can be challenging for animals to consume enough energy to meet their needs. Now climate change is reducing the nutritional value of some foods that plant eaters rely on.

Human activities are increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and raising global temperatures. As a result, many plants are growing faster across ecosystems worldwide.

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Re: Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2024, 07:14:06 am »
Expecting perfection from nature (human expectations) and humans is a fool's choice.
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Re: Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2024, 09:54:32 am »
Very, in my opinion deliberately, faulty reasoning and conclusions. Plant growth and nutrition if driven by far more than CO2, including and especially the fertility of the soil.

This is what the AGW crowd does - grab onto one of many variables, then stretch it out to a questionable conclusion in order to advance the hype, then calling it 'science'.
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Re: Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2024, 07:29:14 pm »
In other news, water drinkers who eat bread are dying in unprecedented numbers...
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Re: Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2024, 08:17:29 pm »
These people are so full of shit.
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Re: Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2024, 08:53:55 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on December 22, 2024, 08:17:29 pm
These people are so full of shit.
It's an industry. Remarkable model. Produce nothing, use tax money and other funds obtained by lawfare and extortion, fly around the planet telling other people they have to walk.

What a rackett!!
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Re: Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2024, 09:06:03 pm »
It is bad if you are a globalist who wishes to starve the populace to subjugate them
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Re: Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2024, 09:43:19 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on December 22, 2024, 09:54:32 am
Very, in my opinion deliberately, faulty reasoning and conclusions. Plant growth and nutrition if driven by far more than CO2, including and especially the fertility of the soil.

This is what the AGW crowd does - grab onto one of many variables, then stretch it out to a questionable conclusion in order to advance the hype, then calling it 'science'.

Yes there are many variables to any living organism's growth and health, however the most common critical variable worldwide seems to be the scarcity of carbon dioxide.  This has been proven by the fact that recently increasing the atmospheric carbon dioxide level has increased tree foliage worldwide by an area equivalent to the size of Texas.  Greenhouses typically have highly elevated carbon dioxide levels which greatly enhances plant growth when obviously the growers always give optimal amounts of water and nutrients.
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Re: Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2024, 10:06:49 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on December 22, 2024, 07:12:15 am
Human activities are increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels

So what are we up to now?  0.04%?
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Re: Claim: Anthropogenic CO2 Driving Faster Plant Growth is Bad
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