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Old 23rd Nov 2017, 21:56
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Binghi says:-

Best thing for an arid Australia. CO2 is the best plant food available:
Not much good having lots of food if it's junk food.

Full article here:-

https://www.politico.com/agenda/stor...dioxide-000511

Extract from full article below



“A higher concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would aid photosynthesis, which in turn contributes to increased plant growth,” the Texas Republican wrote. “This correlates to a greater volume of food production and better quality food.”But as the zooplankton experiment showed, greater volume and better quality might not go hand-in-hand. In fact, they might be inversely linked. As best scientists can tell, this is what happens: Rising CO2 revs up photosynthesis, the process that helps plants transform sunlight to food. This makes plants grow, but it also leads them to pack in more carbohydrates like glucose at the expense of other nutrients that we depend on, like protein, iron and zinc.
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