Everyone knows that rising carbon dioxide emissions are good for the planet. And by everyone we mean the tiny fraction of the scientific community and academics who live in coal- and oil-funded Deniotopia. Including the fossil-fueled creators of this video who predict giant plants at 1,270 ppm (yes you read that right) and insist atmospheric CO2 is "NOT a pollutant."
The rest of the world, however, knows that’s as fantastical as a certain beloved and beautifully illustrated work of Dinofiction. Now there is the longest running field test on a million plants to prove it. Among the hills of Northern California, scientists simulated the conditions of a post-2050 world where greenhouse gas emissions continued unabated. As a result, the landscape did not bloom into a thousand smiling, flourishing, carbon-trapping plants like the “CO2 Fertilization” devotees would have you believe. Instead, the growth of the plants declined with rising temperatures.
When subjected to high levels of heat, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen, they did not grow better nor did they remain effective carbon sinks. "This experiment really puts to bed the idea of a greener hypothesis where ecosystems save us from the implications of human-induced climate change," study author Chris Field, director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment told the AP.
In an honest world, the results would be enough to bury the idea of carbon pollution growing a greener world. But there is enough of another kind of green floating around to ensure Deniotopia never lets that myth go extinct.
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