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Dyson (re Oak Ridge experiments): So if you change the carbon dioxide drastically by a factor of two, the whole behavior of the plant is different. Anyway, that
by 8bitsrule 7y ago
Dyson (re Oak Ridge experiments): So if you change the carbon dioxide drastically by a factor of two, the whole behavior of the plant is different. Anyway, that’s so typical of the things they ignore.
'Different'. 'Ignore'. Not Dyson's best day. Oak Ridge was hardly a climate lab. Many studies have followed. This two year-old SA article, Ask the Experts: Does Rising CO2 Benefit Plants? [0]starts with this summary: "Climate change’s negative effects on plants will likely outweigh any gains from elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels"
[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ask-the-experts-does-rising-co2-benefit-plants1/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ask-the-experts-d...