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| Tom Philpott. |
Plants need carbon
dioxide and that is a scientific fact.
However another scientific fact is that once the atmospheric
content passes a certain limit, those same plants react rather badly.
Writing on Mother
Jones in a story headed: “Climate change is turning your produce into junk food” Tom Philpott pointed out that the benefits from C02 rich air will be
reversed resulting in reduced crops yields.
Quoting a paper published in Nature this month, Philpott notes that heightened levels of atmospheric
carbon makes key staple crops such as wheat, rice, peas and soybeans less
nutritious.
