CO2 can stimulate plant growth, but only when enough nitrogen is available—and that key ingredient has been seriously miscalculated. A new study finds that natural nitrogen fixation has been overestimated by about 50 percent in major climate models. This means the climate-cooling benefits of plant growth under high CO2 are smaller than expected. The result: a reduced buffer against climate change and more uncertainty in future projections.
Yup.
We’re rapidly running out of arable land and fresh water and we’ve breached the planetary boundary for ocean acidification so the oxygen producing phytoplankton won’t be surviving much longer now either (those little guys produce 50 to 80% of the breathable oxygen in our atmosphere).
Oh and ww3: the resource wars, have officially been kicked up a notch now that the USA has invaded Venezuela too. Fun times.
Lmao, we’re beyond fucked. No food, water, or breathable air, and that’s without taking the rapid warming or ww3 into account. Billions of people will die in the next 50 years as our planet becomes uninhabitable to life as we know it.