At the very top of Google News searches for “climate change” this week, an article in The Conversation falsely claims more atmospheric carbon dioxide will bring few if any benefits regarding plant life.
The article completely ignores many documented benefits of carbon dioxide for crops and plant life.
The article, “Climate explained: why higher carbon dioxide levels aren’t good news, even if some plants grow faster,” claims: “At best, you might be mowing your lawn twice as often or harvesting your plantation forests faster.”
The author, Sebastian Leuzinger, acknowledges in passing that increased carbon dioxide helps plants grow faster and larger, and even improves their use of water.
He attempts to dismiss this by putting the worst possible spin on it, suggesting that the primary result is people will have to more frequently engage in the unpleasant task of mowing our lawns.
Putting the worst possible spin on good climate news is a common tactic of climate activists.
Higher carbon dioxide levels and modest warming have resulted in crop yields setting records nearly every year. This is much more impactful than mowing lawns more frequently, and an incredible benefit for human health and welfare.
Also, greater crop yields mean we can preserve more open spaces for the environment rather than farms.
Leuzinger also complains that more abundant, faster-growing plant life will not necessarily absorb more carbon from the atmosphere.
But we don’t want all or most of the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide to be locked away forever. Rather we want plants to use it to grow more abundantly, providing food for plant and animal life on land and in the oceans.
As documented in Climate Change Reconsidered: Biological Impacts (CCRBI), carbon dioxide enriched plant growth has contributed to record crop yields, helping to bring about the largest decline in hunger, malnutrition, and starvation in human history.
So, regardless of what climate alarmists and their media sock puppets say, more abundant and faster-growing plant life is more than simply mowing our lawns more frequently.
More atmospheric carbon dioxide benefits crop production, plant life, and human health and welfare.
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The Facts has never been a interest of the M.S. Media its selling their rotten News Papers and their leftists political agendas that matters to them
“atmospheric carbon dioxide will bring few if any benefits regarding plant life” except for the fact greenhouses use CO2 generators to produce upwards of 1500ppm CO2 for their plants.
Time to put together an
agricultural alliance
to expose lies and hoax
and promulgate truth.
I receive multiple farm publications, most promoting “sustainability” and “low emissions” . Farmers are subsidized and so are the magazines and websites . 33% of corn goes into “renewable fuel” . Farmers have somehow sold themselves into a corner, despite owning hundreds of millions of acres, and the environmental lobby wants them to stay put. We’re buried in surplus grain, debt and despair.
Vast amounts of CO2 are stored and outgassed by processes in the oceans. An equally vast complex process of atmosphere, sun, gravity, earth changes, volcanic actvity, etc etc contributes. Since knowledge of all of this is so limited, all these hysterical statements are of little use.