Re: CO2 = plant growth

[Gail Lucas <gail@SNSC.DRI.EDU>]

The Desert Research Institute, where I work, is involved with a project
to determine what difference increased CO2 has on plants.  There are
test areas set up here in Nevada to do this research.  I will look for
details if anyone is interested.

Gail


On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Gary Flo wrote:

> John Bryan <jbryan@MICRON.NET>
> posted this:
>
> >An enclosed reprint of an article in the Wall Street Journal has this jewel:
> >
> >        What mankind is doing is moving hydrocarbons from below ground and
> >  turning them into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush
> >  environment of plants and animals as a result of the carbon dioxide
> >  increase. Our children will enjoy an Earth with twice as much plant and
> >  animal life as that with which we now are blessed. This is a wonderful and
> >  unexpected gift from the industrial revolution.
>
> This view was also printed recently in a copy of Car and Driver magazine as
> a response to the climate conference in Kyoto.  Their quoted scientists who
> were "shut out" of Kyoto claim the net result of increased carbon dioxide
> in the atmosphere is more plant growth.
>
> GF
>
>
> CO2 = plant growth
>
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