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agentultrayesterday at 6:02 PM1 replyview on HN

Right, my bad... it's not directly the CO2 but the effects of CO2 on climate that is restricting plant growth overall [0].

The net effect is the same. We're not going to see Northern Canada turn into a lush farmland. It's much more complicated than that.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/co2-trees-1.5000709


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timryesterday at 7:03 PM

> Right, my bad... it's not directly the CO2 but the effects of CO2 on climate that is restricting plant growth overall [0]. The net effect is the same.

The net effect is not the same. The net effect is that the earth has been getting greener, in multiple measurable ways, since at least the 1980s.

See my sibling comments containing the IPCC AR6 report citations, where they state that this global greening is happening, and has been happening for decades, with high confidence.

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