Plants’ carbon hunger won’t halt warming
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Plants’ carbon hunger
won’t halt warming
The greenhouse effect has prompted plants to consume more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere − but not enough to prevent global warming.
By Tim Radford
LONDON, 16 November, 2016 − The green economy has begun to respond to a greenhouse world, with new research suggesting that the vegetable kingdom has stepped up its appetite for carbon dioxide as emissions continue to grow.
The outcome is that although carbon dioxide proportions in the atmosphere have soared in less than two centuries, from 280 parts per million to 400 ppm now everywhere on the planet, the rate of increase has appeared to slow.