Playing “Carbon dioxide is plant food” scarecrow – Watt?

David Middleton

Is carbon dioxide a plant food? Why are we still talking about this?

Climate – Demon zombie argument, unlike plants, will not die

Andrew Desler

February 20, 2025

Recent interviews with Trump administration officials restored the ongoing myth of climate change discussion:₂ It's plant food”. This is one of those zombie climate deterioration arguments that will never go away because 1) it's a simple argument, 2) it seems intuitive – after all, plants need carbon dioxide, so more of it's good, right ?

Yes, cooperation₂ Enhance photosynthesis. But crops don't grow in a vacuum, they also need water, temperatures within a specific range, and farmers need predictable seasons. Climate change ruins all of this.

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Climate change destroys all of this

Destroy everything? Global agricultural data is easily accessible to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (Faostat).

oh! But it's just wheat and corn! This is true. There are dozens (if not hundreds of produce). Faostat also released its total agricultural production index relative to 2014-2016.

scarecrow?

I don't know any scientific literacy skeptics say more₂ It's better simply because it's a plant food. I don't know anyone who thinks the rise in the atmosphere₂ It is the only reason for improving agricultural output over the past 64 years.

Although, this is obviously plant food. And we know that less cooperation₂ Very bad for plants. There is compelling evidence₂ C induces carbon starvation in C in the range of 180-220 ppm₃ Plants at the last glacier maximum (Ward et al., 2005). Although there may be more atmospheric co₂ The disadvantages outweigh the advantages and the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, and the rise from 280 ppm is obviously beneficial. This is largely beneficial due to the exploitation of fossil fuels over the past 160 years

From 1800 to 1900, per capita energy consumption (mainly from biomass) remained relatively flat. Same as the average life expectancy. From 1900 to 1978, with the rapid growth of fossil fuel production (coal, oil and gas), per capita energy consumption increased approximately tripled. This is accompanied by double the average life expectancy. While I can't say that fossil fuels lead to an increase in life expectancy, I can clearly say that without fossil fuels, especially oil, there wouldn't be everything about an increase in life expectancy.

Without fossil fuels, our modern society would not exist, and would collapse in the heartbeat if fossil fuels were unavailable and/or unbearable. One of the coolest things about being a petroleum geologist is that I can thank fossil fuels and say “you’re welcome” in the same sentence.

Interestingly, Andrew Dessler is a professor at Texas A&M University.

The Permanent University Fund (PUF) is a public endowment fund that facilitates support from the University of Texas and qualified institutions of the Texas A&M University system. The PUF was established in the Texas Constitution of 1876 through grants previously awarded land grants to the University of Texas and another million acres. Additional land grants from PUF were completed in 1883, with another million acres of land contributing. Today, PUF has over 2.1 million acres of land, mainly located in 19 counties in West Texas.

The main investment goal of PUF is to maximize return on investment in the risk parameters specified in the PUF investment policy statement without considering the allocation rate.

PUF invests in a wide range of investment portfolios and actively manages its policy portfolio or benchmarks. UTIMCO allocates PUF's assets to internally and externally managed portfolios in accordance with the guidelines approved in the PUF's Investment Policy Statement.

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Permanent University Fund (PUF)

refer to

Lomburg, Bjorn. Welfare in the 21st century: development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policy. Technology forecasting and social change. Volume 156, 2020, 119981, ISSN 0040-1625, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.119981.

MacFarling Meure, C., D. Etheridge, C. Trudinger, P. Steele, R. Langenfelds, T. VanOmmen, A. Smith and J. Elkins (2006), Law Dome Co₂ch₄ and n₂oIce core record extended to 2000 BP, Plants on Earth. res. Lett.33, L14810, DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026152.

Ward, Joey K. Harris, John M. Cerling, Thure e. Wiedenhoeft, Alex; Lott, Michael J. ; Dear, Maria Dennis; Coltrain, Joan b. Ehleringer, James R., 2005. Carbon hunger in glacier trees recovered from La Brea Tar pit in Southern California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. roll. 102, no. 3 (January 18, 2005): p. 690-694

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