Jungle Britain: A result of rising temperatures and CO2 levels?
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Ай бұрынOrchid Hunter makes the same observation at 1.26 of his recent video, filmed at Ketton Quarry:
• Summer Orchids @ Ketto...
And the the Earth is 'officially' getting greener; see this recent article in VOX:
www.vox.com/down-to-earth/202...
The most recent research shows that 55% of the earth's land is becoming greener at an accelerated rate:
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
@maihangstrawberry Ай бұрын
Hello . 😊 Have a great weekend .
@newbotany Ай бұрын
Hi Mai, thanks for watching!😎👍
@ZiggySearchfieldCactus Ай бұрын
You sure about the rainfall Alan? Done nothing but rain all winter down here, had to cover my outside cactus bed for the first time. CO2 has risen by 0.02% in the past 200 years but it's been thousands of times higher in the past when plants grew huge like the coal measure ferns the size of trees. Might be a factor, but nitrogen fixation by thunderstorms is a more likely culprit in the short term, grass grows mental 4 days after a thunderstorm. We tend to notice it when we've got 3 acres to cut 😬😁
@newbotany Ай бұрын
Agreed about the nitrogen,, but CO2 has risen at a very rapid rate in a short time. The earth itself is producing more chlorophyll to counteract this. This well-referenced article in Vox shows how this is happening. www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2024/2/7/24057308/earth-global-greening-climate-change-carbon If we are heading towards Jurassic World 2 it doesn't worry me, life and humans will adapt. Thanks for watching, Ziggy 🌲🌳🌴
@ZiggySearchfieldCactus Ай бұрын
@@newbotany Good thing it has Alan 🙂 Only needed to go down below 150ppm and we wouldn't be typing this now as all the plants would be dead along with us 😮 I'm just reading a book called "Underland" which tells about the 10,000 year old cave full of human skeletons found in the Medips, they were all suffering from chronic malnutrition. I know it was in the ice age but I also wonder how much of that was due to plants declining as the CO2 was so low then? 😬 Yep, roll on Jungle Britain, good to have food to eat 🙂
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