Scientists Discover Biology

Most of us who are not paid by the environmental-government complex realise from primary school science that plants absorb carbon dioxide out of the air and by the miracle of photosynthesis turn it into more plant.

A corollary of this amazing fact is that more CO2 in the air increases the rate of plant growth, as does temperature, so all the stupid alarm over global warming is easily seen to be false. All we have to do is let the planet do what it is designed to do and everything is happy- especially those of us who like to use electricity and drive motor vehicles.

Amazingly environmentalists have just discovered the role that plants have in sucking atmospheric CO2 and "locking the carbon in the soil."

From the ABC:

Study shows outback soaking up CO2

Australia's vast outback is remote and arid, but the expansive landscape could also play a cheap and effective role in the Federal Government's climate change solution.

A new study has found around 6 million square kilometres of Australian outback is also a massive carbon bank, storing huge amounts of atmospheric pollution. The area, from the central west of New South Wales to Cape York, across the Top End and down to the Wheat Belt in Western Australia, absorbs more than 9.5 billion tonnes of carbon.

Patrick O'Leary, from the Pew Environment group which commissioned the study, says if managed properly it could reduce carbon pollution by 5% by 2050.

"Right now our estimates are there's about 9.7 billion tonnes of carbon stored in the trees and plants of the outback so that's in the roots, stems and leaves and so on," he says.

"About another well over a billion tonnes can be stored between now and 2050 if we can put into practice better land management."

That additional storage would be the equivalent of taking 7.5 million cars off the road every year for the next 40 years.

O'Leary says this is an effective and cheap part of a bigger solution, but so far it has been overlooked.

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D'uh.

Farmers have been trying to tell them this for years. In fact the climate scare business has been driven by people who seldom set foot outside of a city to see how a natural environment actually works.

If you add up all the grasslands, savannahs, and forests, then throw in all the algae in the sea, my uneducated guess is that this has far greater capacity to regulate the atmosphere than the global warming scaremongers will ever want to admit.