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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Newsflash: Plants Grow Better With More CO2

Our planet has a wonderfully efficient recycling system (some might say "intelligently designed"). Humans and animals take in oxygen and produce carbon dioxide. It "so happens" that plants take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. What an amazing system!

It's also interesting, in these times when we hear daily of the horrors of CO2 and how our evil capitalist CO2-producing-ways will soon render our planet a burning ball of fire, that (amazingly) scientists are finding that increased CO2 is making plants grow better.

From Breitbart:

The dangerous rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may be troubling scientists and world leaders but it could prove to be a boon for plants, German researchers said Tuesday.

Increasing exposure to carbon dioxide appears to boost crop yields, Hans-Joachim Weigel of the Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute for rural areas, forestry and fisheries in the central city of Brunswick told AFP.

"Output increased by about 10 percent for barley, beets and wheat" when the plants were subjected to higher levels of carbon dioxide, Weigel said.

Could it be that, even if humans really are producing significantly increased amounts of CO2 with their evil capitalistic activity, that plants are maintaining a balance by taking in more CO2 and growing more and producing more oxygen?

Nah. That might be the result from natural processes, but such a thing couldn't possibly result from human-produced CO2. Al Gore would have told us if that could happen.

Right?


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