[HN Gopher] NOAA: Plant growth surging as CO2 increases
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       NOAA: Plant growth surging as CO2 increases
        
       Author : morpheos137
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2021-07-18 20:25 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.noaa.gov)
        
       | site-packages1 wrote:
       | Not a scientist or otherwise expert, but this seems like a silver
       | lining in the climate change that will eventually lead to humans
       | not being able to inhabit the planet and the impact people are
       | having on the planet: plants get more food and grow more. Am I
       | wrong in that thought?
        
         | gmuslera wrote:
         | Plants get more carbon, but not more minerals or elements that
         | are only in the soil. And that may mean more volume, maybe more
         | calories, but less food.
         | 
         | That, even if we assume that we get to an stable and livable
         | weather plateau, and not an ever increasing global warming,
         | extreme weather, and livable conditions for every animal and
         | plant.
         | 
         | And even in that plateau, if the ecosystem that make that
         | plants to live (I don't know, bees, worms, bacteria and so on)
         | don't make it the plants won't be good for long neither.
        
       | DJBunnies wrote:
       | Did anybody else expect this? Plants love CO2, seems like excess
       | will lead to crazy plant growth and a rebalance.
        
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