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Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/15 4:01 PM, Double-A wrote:
>> CO2 is good for plants.
> 
>   Correction: Plants Will Not Flourish as the World Warms
>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/correction-plants-will-not-flourish-as-the-world-warms/
> 
>> In all the bad news about climate change, one bright spot was the
>> forecast that rising temperatures would help plants grow worldwide,
>> especially in the cold, high latitudes. But a new study rips that
>> idea out by the roots. “There is more to climate change than just
>> temperature,” says Camilo Mora, an assistant professor of geography
>> at the University of Hawaii in Mānoa, who led the work. Drought and
>> limited sunlight will undermine any gain from a warmer atmosphere. By
>> 2100, Mora says, “there could be an 11 percent reduction in the plant
>> growing season worldwide.”
>>
>> One primary reason is that heating the Arctic will not bring
>> pineapples to Alaska. There is insufficient sunlight year-round at
>> high latitudes to support lush vegetation. In addition, the tropics
>> will lose up to 200 “suitable growing days” a year—days when
>> temperature, soil moisture and sunlight favor growth rather than
>> retard it—because of excessive heat and drought. Overall, “the
>> decreasing number of suitable growing days in the tropics will offset
>> optimistic projections at mid- and high-latitudes,” the study
>> concludes. It was published on June 9 in PloS Biology.
>>
>> Mora did not expect this result when he began the study, inspired by
>> notes he swapped with a climate denier. In 2013 Mora published a
>> high-profile study in Nature showing that climate change would harm
>> plants and animals in the tropics sooner than it would hurt them in
>> the Arctic. He says he received numerous e-mails and phone calls
>> attacking the results. “In one such phone call I decided to talk to
>> the person,” he explains. “The guy, one of the so-called climate
>> deniers, claimed that climate change would actually be good for the
>> planet.” The argument is known as the greening effect—that warmer
>> temperatures and higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere would increase
>> plant growth. Mora found several serious papers reaching that
>> conclusion. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing
>> Group.)
 
The idiot that wrote this has obviously never been to Phoenix. 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 20:41 -0600
  Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-14 03:29 +0000
  Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-13 23:09 -0600
    Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-14 13:22 -0600
  Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-12-14 14:01 -0800
    Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 16:10 -0600
      Re: Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-14 22:47 +0000

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