Greenhouse Effect/ Global Warming?

Question

does anyone know how plants will respond to the greenhouse effect? will they grow faster or slower? please have some data to back it up! thanks.

Answer 1

uh, it depends on the type of plant.  Saying they will grow slower if they warm is not accurate.  Plants in greenhouses do great up to a certain point, like over 100 degrees.  But some love over 100 degree temps.  And you cant assume it will be 100 degrees everywhere because of global warming...  So yes, they will enjoy the extra carbon, and most likely grow faster.

The only data anyone will give you on here was from an experiment set up to make global warming look bad.  They showed how co2 "killed part of a forest".... cause they were pumping TOO much in, way more needed to make the 600 ppm they are projecting.  Im betting they saturated the air with up to 1% co2... because they found dead mammals in the immeadiate area, something that 600 ppm will NOT do.

Plants are going to love it!  And what you dont know is that the oceanic microorganisms that make most of our oxygen will love it even more.

Ill add it, gengi doesnt know what he is talking about.  An individual plant in one location will not notice much of a temp difference.  GLOBAL warming has to do with the entire average of the planet, and most of that increased average is because its warmer at the pole, and not really everywhere else.  So a plant in any one individual location will not detect any temp difference, only more co2.

Answer 2

they grow faster in the presence of CO2 but as the plant warms they grow slower.

Answer 3

Up to a certain temperature, the plant will grow faster and may even flourish. At a certain temperature however, (it is different for all plants), temperature will cause the proteins inside the plant to break down, and the effect will be that the plant grows less and less after this temprature - this is known as the threshold effect. So up to a certain point, yes global warming is beneficial for a lot of living things.

This also not to say anything of the effects of evaporation on plants which are out doors - global warming will change the patterns of the water cycle, causing flooding in some areas and drought in others, which will also obviously influence vegetation.

Answer 4

As the CO2 levels increase the plants grow more quickly since plants need CO2 to survive.  They then release 02 after taking the carbon out to grow.  This is simple biology.

Answer 5

I would say that it depends on the plant.  Certain plants, for example, thrive at higher temperatures and grow the most during the summer in temperate climates.  These types would probably have a longer growth period.  Some plants require a period of cold, and they might not do as well with a warmer winter.  Also, the stronger rays from the sun could affect plants that don't thrive in it, or dry out plants that require moist soil.

Answer 6

Yes, they will either grow faster or slower, except for the ones that grow at the same rate.

Answer 7

There has to be oxigen in free form of carbondioxide for both hemoglobine and chlorofill based life to adopt in the air.

Plants , trees freeing up oxigen to humans and animals, by building in them the carbon from carbondioxide.

They cant take carbon from bakingsoda, etc.

Our gasshield should be protected and all

science looking sabotages that thinning away oxigen from our planets dasshield outta be revised and cancelled, before more fatalities that

already exists.

Answer 8

likely faster due to heat

but plants use visible light - not IR for photosynthesis, so it shouldn't have much off an effect at all.