Has anyone mentioned that Anthropogenic Forcing of the Climate is hubristic?
Here's a story about that -- a discovery that Nature has a few cards up it's sleeve only to have it turn on whether it can be high-jacked for humankind's benefit:
phys.org/news/2022-06-secret-carbon-decisions-future.html
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The secret carbon decisions plants are making about our future
New research from The University of Western Australia has revealed that plants make their own "secret" decisions about how much carbon to release back into the atmosphere via a previously unknown process, a discovery with "profound implications" for the use of plants as carbon stores.
Professor Harvey Millar, from UWA's School of Molecular Sciences and an author of the study published today in Nature Plants, said the findings mean plants of the future could be designed to meet the world's food needs while also aiding the environment.
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"It shows that current discussions around carbon net zero and the role that crops, forests and grasslands can play, should also include conversations on what happens inside plants, alongside global financial decisions."
UWA researchers are now involved in long term international partnerships to find better ways to use energy from respiration in order to redirect carbon to biomass without limiting a plant's ability to grow and protect itself from pathogens or harsh environments.
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