CO2 is a very good thing

[IanC]

Increased CO2 Levels Are Mixed Blessing For Agriculture

If you’re looking for a positive spin on rising CO2 levels, it’s that agricultural production in some areas is bound to increase,” Curtis said. “Crops have higher yields when more CO2 is available, even if growing conditions aren’t perfect.

“But there’s a tradeoff between quantity and quality. While crops may be more productive, the resulting produce will be of lower nutritional quality

from the article-

Plants grown at higher CO2 levels had more flowers (an average of 19 percent more in the species studied); more seeds (16 percent more); greater individual seed weight (four percent more); greater total seed weight (25 percent more) and lower concentration of nitrogen in the seeds (a decrease of 14 percent) than those grown at current levels of atmospheric CO2.

hmmm...25% increase plus 16% decrease still adds up to a 7.5% increase. And that is assuming that nitrogen for protein building is the only nutrient. its funny how often more means less and good means bad to the alarmists.

 

[Old Rocks]

Well, the claim of you denialists is simply that CO2 is all too the good for agriculture. In the real world, there seems to be a few more factors involved. And then there is that little matter of increasingly unstable growing seasons due to the changing climate. Russia and Pakistan, this year.

 

[Old Rocks]

Of course CO2 is a very good thing. Plants breath it. Plants are good and key for life on earth.

Warmer weather is generally good too.

Just ask any Russian about that this summer.

 

[IanC]

Poor Old Rocks is giving up. A glaring non sequitur between CO2 and russian bushfires, and then he just slinks away to daydream about how righteous Global Warming was before people started asking questions.