CO2 Science

At the close of this year's "Earth Day," perhaps now is a good time to remind the media that carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant as ABC news would have you to believe... youtu.be/P2qVNK6zFgE?si… youtu.be/LPNiBVU2QIA?si…

Over the past 30 years intrinsic water use efficiencies (iWUE) of three Bangladesh tree species rose by a respectable 29-46% in response to a mere 15% rise in atmospheric CO2. co2science.org/articles/V24/f…

A study of sea urchin populations conducted simultaneously in both field & laboratory settings reveals a shortcoming of laboratory-based ocean acidification experiments, which shortcoming changed the outlook in this study from negative to positive. co2science.org/articles/V24/f…

Over the period 1986-2015, net primary productivity (NPP) has increased in coastal China by an average 1.67 g C m-2 yr-1... co2science.org/articles/V24/f…

Across six separate growing seasons, elevated CO2 reduced area-scaled N2O emissions in a subtropical rice field by 23-78% co2science.org/articles/V24/f…

Rising atmospheric CO2 reduced both the development and fecundity of the bird cherry-oat aphid, an insect pest responsible for significant annual losses in cereal yield and quality co2science.org/articles/V24/f…

Lettuce plants exposed to higher light intensities and CO2 concentrations experience better growth performance than those exposed to lower light and lower CO2 levels. co2science.org/articles/V24/f…

Under a worse-case CO2 emission scenario, learning & the capacity for conditional discrimination are unaffected in bigfin reef squid, indicating complex/higher level learning of this important cephalopod species will not be impaired by ocean acidification co2science.org/articles/V24/j…

The survival rate of a beetle pest was reduced 57% under elevated CO2 rearing conditions in the first generation and by a whopping 98% in the second generation! co2science.org/articles/V24/j…

Between 2001 and 2017, nearly 70% of the terrestrial biosphere experienced significant increases in leaf area index values that were caused by rising atmospheric CO2. co2science.org/articles/V24/j…

Two decades of temperature and mortality data from Portugal reveal the attributable fraction of human deaths due to cold weather is 145 times greater than that due to heat! co2science.org/articles/V24/j…

The title of the journal article reviewed herein says it all: "Elevated temperature and CO2 have positive effects on the growth and survival of larval Australasian snapper"... co2science.org/articles/V23/d…

Real-world data reveal Tuvalu's citizens are in no danger of becoming climate refugees anytime soon, if ever! co2science.org/articles/V23/d…

Over the past 36 years the temperature of minimum mortality at both Madrid and Seville, Spain, has been rising, outpacing both observed and predicted temperature increases in a manner consistent with adaptation co2science.org/articles/V23/d…

In a worse-case climatic scenario treatment of elevated CO2 (800 ppm) and high temperature stress (+2.5 °C above ambient), none of the nine cultivars experienced declining grain yields while four experienced significant increases... co2science.org/articles/V23/n…

Since 1980, annual wheat production in India has increased by 43 Mt, the vast majority of which increase likely came from three factors: rising atmospheric CO2, the application of nitrogen fertilizer and irrigation... #givethanks for rising CO2! co2science.org/articles/V23/n…

Rising atmospheric CO2 is a management strategy farmers can count on to increase yields both now and in the future, even under water-limited stressful conditions of drought... The Effects of CO2 and Water Stress on Bell Pepper co2science.org/articles/V23/n…

Many positive growth-related enhancements from elevated CO2 increased from one generation to the next, signaling that the benefits of CO2 might be much larger than that reported in thousands of first generation experiments... co2science.org/articles/V23/n…

Projecting Mid- and Late-century Spring Potato Yields in South Korea co2science.org/articles/V23/n…

The Interactive Effects of CO2 and Salt Stress on Tomato Seedlings co2science.org/articles/V23/n…