Studies have been done that can conclusively show that plants grow faster under higher CO2 levels. This technique is used in greenhouses all over the world. They add more CO2 to the greenhouse and increase profits. This plant-phobia behavior of the Left needs to stop. It is ironical that Liberals are more often vegetarians yet are plant-phobic when it comes to feeding the plants more of their main food source; CO2 and H2O.
How Climate Change Will Affect Plants
Back in the age of the dinosaurs, high CO2 levels is what made everything so warm, green, lush and large.
This is part of a natural self correcting response by nature. More CO2 means more and faster growing plants which not only fixate CO2 but also fixate water. This plant water adds a natural cooling effect to forests. The real man made problem has to do with defoliation to accommodate the growing world population. The removal of plants; rain forests, and the lowering of plant density everywhere to accommodate humans and subdivision, has caused the surface of the earth to heat faster and absorb less CO2.
This extra heating of the surface is caused by the beach sand effect. If you go to the beach on a sunny day, the dry sand gets much hotter than the wet sand. The wet sand has water, like plants, which has a higher heat capacity than dry sand alone. The dry sand and the developed land both have lower heat capacity than water and plants, and these man made surfaces get hotter with the same heat. Go walk on the grass barefooted and then walk on the road barefooted. The difference is more than 1.5C. You can fry an egg on the asphalt.
Since 1800 the world population grew from about 1 billion and now we have 8 billion. The Liberal driven world trade agreements, that sent jobs overseas, have helped poor countries to develop and have given cheap labor to Big Business. These are positive but have a price. The DNC has helped transformed the world from an agricultural and plant lifestyle to an industrial and urban complex, where the living water surface of the earth is being replaced with low heat capacity building materials, that heat up faster. Now the same people are plant-phobic, blaming the food of plants, which can allow plant to reverse this trend. I guess they live for creating disasters.
Besides this heat capacity effect, water is the main player when it comes to weather and climate. Plants are one of water's many control system tricks. Another trick of water that is also related to current climate change is the conversion of ice to liquid water; melting the glaciers and poles. Ice reflects solar energy and has a cooling effect beyond just being cold. Liquid and gas phase of water are greenhouse gases, while ice has the opposite effect.
This unique water trick needed for glacial cycles, only works because water expands when it freezes. This is one of 70 anomalous properties of water. If water did what most material in nature do; contract when it freezes, the oceans would never freeze at the surface. The ice would sink and build up from the bottom of the oceans, up. It would be hard to have an ice age. But with ice floating on liquid water, even the earth's water surface can become ice and the ice can reflect heat back into space, so ice ages appear in a cyclic fashion. This can be seen in the graph below. We have been heating naturally since about 18,000 year ago and are near the top of a natural water based heating cycle. About 18,000 years ago the oceans were 120 meter lower with all that liquid water in the form of ice reflecting heat and keeping the surface cold.
The more the earth tilts the more the same solar heat affects the poles and melts the ice.
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