Climate science may have made a BIG mistake!

New research using the most comprehensive global dataset yet on biological nitrogen fixation suggests that one of the climate system’s most reassuring assumptions — the idea that rising CO₂ will significantly boost plant growth and help absorb our emissions — may have been significantly overstated. Plants will still absorb carbon, but the gap between what we emit and what nature can safely take up may be a lot wider than we once thought.

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Reference Links

Kou-Giesbrecht et al - Overestimated natural biological nitrogen fixation translates to an exaggerated CO2 fertilization effect in Earth system models

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2514628122

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