This is a very reliable source.
Many years ago "Scientific American" was a reliable source. Not so much these days. Now they publish mostly left-wing pseudo-science.
A solution for a problem that doesn’t exist.
Sheesh.
Could we have the names of these so-called "scientists", please?
"Near-runaway state". "Dangerously overheated by greenhouse gasses".
The stupid; it hurts.
CO2 levels lag the increase and decrease of temperature. It is impossible for the laggard to cause the leader.
Wow! They had climate change way back then? Who knew? I bet the democrat cavemen blamed it on the guy who discovered fire.
Don’t mess. A global increase in temperature will help feed the billions....a little ice age will kill a billion or more. Simple math.
OK so we plant this fern, it sucks up way too much CO2, and our food crops die. Sounds sucky to me.
Got to give them credit, they don’t give up. Despite the earth not warming in the last 20 yrs they still hype “global warming” as a threat.
>>Fifty-five million years ago, when scientists believe the Earth was in a near-runaway state, dangerously overheated by greenhouse gases
Do 13 year old girls write this crap? No one else can be so breathlessly overdramatic.
The earth was once a hothouse with a lot more CO2 than it does now. Plants grew adundantly, as any living thing does when the conditions are PERFECT for it. Some ferns grew to the size of trees. This must have been one of them. So, guess what happened? They grew so big that they used up the excess CO2. The earth cooled. Plants shrunk. Animals thrived as the O2 rose and CO2 lowered.
Equilibrium was restored by natural processes over the course of millions of years. The piddly changes in CO2 that these “scientists” claim, but cannot truthfully measure without changing the rules every few years is nothing. Global warming due to CO2 in our time is like urinating in the ocean—the guy next to you may feel some effects, but people in France will not care one bit.
Sounds like it would be classed as “invasive” here in Cali.
I have some wild fern like plants in the back yard.. I didn’t plant em. Invasive?
LOrdy only knows what’s blowing around in the winds these days.
This type of “solution” has a terrible track record, usually causing much worse problems than those it intended to solve.
The best thing to do about the weather is to adapt to it.
Oh Boy! Here we go again with some crack-pot idea to tame Global Warming.
Wake up you stupid idiots....it’s the sun!!!!!!! Not man!
If you global warming idiots want to prove something dig up fossilized steel and coal fired plants that are surely there to prove the fact that millions of years ago these plants spewed contaminants into the air and caused numerous periods of glaciers and global warming.
I will believe in global warming and our ability to control it in any manner when we are able to stabilize the wobble of the earth and put shades on the sun. Until then.........LIVE WITH IT and better yet, learn real natural science.
There hasn’t been any ‘warming’ in 21 years...
“Scientific American” is a bullsh*t magazine now... not worth quoting...
If they want to grow ferns inexpensively, fine. We can always burn them for fuel if we need to.
Sun not producing enough sunspots....
The solution to global warming is knowing there is no global warming, it is a fabrication of the Peter Pan leftist liberals from hell who love big government regulations which are used to regulate and destroy American liberties and rights by deceit and treachery.
The solution to global warming is realizing that the US government uses this and many other left wing programs as a way to continue to raise taxes and scare the sillies of America who believe politicians are looking out for them, both are lies indeed.
CO2 at 3500 PPM Daym!
Take as much as you want to cool the planet down to the normal temperature as determined by leading scientists - the more leading the bigger the grants. We don’t need all that CO2 as only plants need it, besides watering plants everyday is a chore most of us do not need - we have better things to do and programs to keep up with.
Humans don’t need all that stinking, rotten vegetation all over the place - it is hard to maintain, gets expensive to keep buying gas for the lawn mower and other essentials.
Keep the vegetation down to the reasonable levels as set by out scientists working glove in hand with our politicians who know best. We are just peons and our opinions are worthless compared to the vast double-domed knowledge these hugely popular and important people possess.
Best to cool the planet down until kilometer-high glaciers begin to form and then back off a bit, bringing the average sky-high power bills down to a more reasonable couple thousand dollars a month.