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Saturday, December 1, 2012

CO2 Could Reduce Crop Yields

It almost certainly will in a particular region for a particular crop, but it may help certain crop yields in other regions.  Some people focus only on the fact that CO2 is consumed by plants as a part of photosynthesis, so the first thought is that rising CO2 should be good.  But rising CO2 also causes temperature increases, droughts and flooding which can be worse.

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