alt Hacker NewsThe edited title is misleading.
The original aricle's title is "Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Life Makes Clouds, and Their Discoveries May Drastically Improve Climate Science." Indeed, this knowledge will improve the models we use to understand and predict the climate.
The supplied title "Cloud-forming isoprene and terpenes from crops may drastically improve climate" is completely different, as it states that crop emissions may change climate for the better.
"Understanding cloud-forming isoprene and terpenes from crops may drastically improve climate science" would be a much better title for this post.
I changed the title to better reflect the aspirations of the Smithsonian. Because some people might take "plants" to mean "chemical plants" :)
In clearly better faith, there was a HN submission this week finding cryptic isoprene emission in soybean (3pts). The crop that's Taleb-famous for the GM in GMO. Title & theme of that paper seemed to have bounced off the enthusiasts here..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377401
(Maybe yours is a bit long,maybe not, but imho we're a bit closer than only "understanding".)