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Environment & Energy

Socialistlemur

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1. Plant growth increase stalled with temperature increase stall

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Thu May 30, 2013, 04:12 PM

May 2013

Surface temperatures stopped increasing around 12 to 13 years ago. This matches the stall in plant growth and it does confirm the warmer and the more CO2 the better for plants. For now anyway..the article has a slight mistake because global surface temperature isn't climbing.

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Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth [View all] GliderGuider May 2013 OP

Plant growth increase stalled with temperature increase stall Socialistlemur May 2013 #1

And that gets you Number 9 on the list. Iterate May 2013 #2

They're talking about regional droughts GliderGuider May 2013 #3