[HN Gopher] It's Getting Too Hot for Tropical Trees to Photosynt...
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       It's Getting Too Hot for Tropical Trees to Photosynthesize,
       Scientists Warn
        
       Author : gardenfelder
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-08-25 19:03 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | ugur2nd wrote:
       | What is the solution? How can it be solved? The first thing that
       | came to my mind was to take actions to increase the population of
       | photosynthesizing sea creatures.
        
         | Modified3019 wrote:
         | If it was a crop field, I'd recommend a purpose designed
         | calcium carbonate spray[0] to protect the crop. Not really
         | viable for millions of acres of rainforest though.
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         | [0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M9oA8y65hLk
        
         | petre wrote:
         | Algae blooms? It will naturally happen anyway at some point but
         | green water is not pretty and it stinks. I don't want to
         | imagine oceans turning into the Black Sea.
        
         | dingus9001 wrote:
         | [flagged]
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | [Dupe]
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       | More discussion over here:
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37266091
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37245008
        
       | toasted-subs wrote:
       | Getting hotter because all the developers are chopping down
       | trees.
        
       | gardenfelder wrote:
       | There is a temperature-photosynthesis curve (googles well)
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       | >A small fraction of tropical tree leaves already pass the
       | threshold, scientists estimate, and that number could grow under
       | worst-case climate models.
        
       | jschveibinz wrote:
       | According to evolutionary reasoning, some tropical trees will
       | still be able to photosynthesize in tropical regions. Those will
       | become the dominant species.
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       | It will be the same order of business for all life on a warmer
       | earth. Will humans thrive? Perhaps not. But some species will
       | thrive.
        
       | rolph wrote:
       | this is not something to handwave away.
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       | previous posts:
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37241079
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37238419
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37238381
        
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