Global Warming: It’s GOOD for the Environment
8th July 2012
Climate change, this global warming thing, it’s going to mean that the tropical forests frazzle up and then we all die, right? It will mena the death of the “lungs of the planet” – such as the miles upon miles of Amazon jungle – which turn CO2 into the O2 that we inhale. It’s titsup for humanity, basically. Except, according to one new paper in Nature, that’s not the way it will work. CO2 is indeed plant food and more plant food means more plants, more forests and thus we’re all saved: or perhaps not quite as screwed as some seem to think at least.
July 8th, 2012 at 13:14
So now we’ve progressed from ‘It’s not happening’, through ‘Okay, it’s happening, but it’s not our fault,’ to ‘Well, it’s happening, but it’s a good thing’.
Like telling Texas, in the middle of the current drought, that it’s okay because the clothes on the line will dry faster.