[SERKIT]

North American Anti-Carbon Program (NAACP) - has a ring to it.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Battle Axe]

Hummmmmmm Someone has taken plant physiology.

[JohnEBoy]

FTA - The more carbon emissions we dump into the air, the faster forests and plants grow.

Thanks for the news, I learned this in the third grade, fifty years ago!

[aquila48]

“The more carbon emissions we dump into the air, the faster forests and plants grow.

This new revelation is the result of research done by the North American carbon program. Scott Denning, Ph.D.”

He actually managed to get a grant to find out the obvious???

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“but sometimes it can have a positive effect on plants and trees”

lol. yeah. almost always, in fact.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

CO2 HAS SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PLANET!!!!

[brianr10]

That means I have to mow the lawn more often.

[OldMissileer]

Who’d a thunk it?

A statement of the effing obvious. Plants like carbon dioxide. I am sure glad someone finally edumecated me on this subject. (do I really need a sarc tag?)

[jcon40]

At least CO2 doesn’t smell as bad as the very dangerous methane

[mylife]

Hey Mr Scientist.
Carbon is the cornerstone of all life on the planet.

Maybe, just maybe, it is a good thing and nature has a plan for it.

[3niner]

...unexpected benefit of rising carbon dioxide levels.

"Unexpected?" Unbelievable. These guys are scientists?

Different species of trees vary, but a typical tree is about half carbon. It's what holds the tree together.

Take a typical 1 ton (small) tree. It would contain about 1,000 pounds of carbon. To get 1,000 pounds of carbon, it had to take 3,667 pounds of CO2 out of the air, and release 2,667 pounds of O2 (oxygen gas).

It takes about 1,400 cubic feet of air to get 1 ounce of CO2, so it took all of the CO2 from about 80,000,000 cubic feet of air. Keep in mind, this is a small tree (the roots count, too).

Not surprisingly, it takes a long time for the tree to make contact with, and grab CO2 from, this much air. Actually, it has to make contact with much more air, because it can't extract all of the CO2 from the air it contacts.

If the air contains much more CO2, it is hardly surprising that the tree can contact the CO2 it needs much sooner, and grow faster.

Farmers in Israel have taken advantage of this for many years, by growing crops near the Dead Sea, which is about 1,400 feet below sea level. There is much more CO2 in the air there, which more than makes up for the extra effort required to grow plants in the harsh environment.

[count-your-change]

This article really shows the benefit of a “higher” education. A person can discover what has been known and published for decades and still be treated as something other than an idiot.

[Right Wing Assault]

Great. Now we have to deal with ANOTHER pollutant. Plants.

[yazoo]

So, it’s earth against the trees. Time to pick sides.

[hermgem]

We need to seriously consider taxing newsprint.
These Newspaper people are fully aware that millions of trees are felled every year to supply material for newspapers.
Trees and plants need CO2 for growth and therefore should not be destroyed to make paper.
A tax of 33% of the papers price needs to serve as carbon offset, encouraging users to cut down on paper usage and switch to wireless information.
As Nancy Pelosi proclaimed: I need to save the planet.
Let's make a beginning for the good of all.

[GingisK]

...discerned and confirmed the unforeseen advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels...

Like warming/cooling cycles, many of us caught those lectures from our fourth grade teachers. Have all of the "leaders" of the world gone daft?

[SuziQ]

About 100 cell phone and aircraft towers dotting the North American landscape are providing a network to measure CO2 in the atmosphere. Physicists tracking the data have found an unexpected benefit of rising carbon dioxide levels. Dr. Denning says it's unusual. "Stuff is growing faster than it's dying, which is weird," he says.

Doesn't say much for Dr. Denning. I'm not a scientist, and I could have told him that! CO2 is what plants THRIVE on!