>>13227565 nice article anon!It'd be interesting to see if plants capable of nitrogen-fixing like basedbeans suffer the same effect of increased biomass but decreased nutrition with increasing CO2 concentrations. If not maybe supplementing more nitrogen would fix a lot of the nutritional problems in rice and other non-legumes.
My stoner friend in college grew his own herb and when he started adding CO2 the quality fell off a cliff. He had more bud but at that point nobody wanted to buy it because it was basically shake (more biomass; less "nutrition" lol)! It wasn't until he started adding more nutes that he was able to get the quality back up to where it was that people started actually buying again. Eventually the quality surpassed his pre-CO2 fertlized crop and he even wrote an equation for what PNK concentrations you should use at varying CO2 levels and the resulting THC percentages (he used the orgo lab's GCMS lol)... I'm gonna see if I can find it for you. He also did some really cool stuff with LEDs and photosynthesis optimization by strobing them but he got kinda carried away after that lol
Really the salient question is whether unlocking of new arable land in Canada, Alaska and Siberia+northern passage trade routes being opened up+increased food production from fertilization effect of CO2 (assuming proper supplemental nutrition) ends up balancing the diaspora caused by desertification ("climate refugees"), the loss of biodiversity from the velocity of ecological change, the flooding of coastal cities, and the increase in extreme weather events to higher atmospheric heat.
The answer is of course 'no' and anyone who doesn't see that is pants-on-head retarded or has neurotoxic levels of arrogance in their brains. But to be honest it doesn't matter -- we better work together to get ready for the new world that waits for us. We've gotten through worse as a species: Toba was a doozy!
