How plants can help fight climate change?

According to a new study, the climate change models do not accredit plants enough for absorbing the
carbon dioxide from the air. Earths plant life absorbs more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than
the amount suggested by earlier researches. In addition, the burned fossil fuels are also a major source
of artificial CO2 emissions. This raises a question of whether trees are actually saving the world from us.
Are we contributing to its deterioration faster than the forests are saving it, or if its the other way
around?
It is a fifth grade science fact, that plants need CO2 for photosynthesis. However, the current CO2 cycles
estimated from computer models do not account for the CO2 that directly diffuses into a leafs
mesophyll tissue. This has caused researches and models to underestimate the overall global CO2 intake
by the plants, by as much as 16 percent. This does not reduce the urgency to deal with the fossil fuel
CO2 emissions as the climatic change associated to CO2 emissions is way greater than the CO2
absorption.
The study was not conducted to make climatic forecasts, but its motive was to redefine the older
models. This is because geo-scientists inter-relate every earthly system to evaluate the overall scenarios.
The CO2 isnt even the only factor in the process of plant growth; water and nutrient limitations also play
a role, which sometimes offsets the benefits of CO2. However, when extra CO2 does boost growth, the
additionally absorbed carbonreturns into the air.
Martin Heimann, the director of the biogeochemical systems research at Germanys Max Planck
Institute, says that an additional step in the photosynthesis has not been incorporated in the current
models. This process increases the uptake potential of the land biosphere for any excess CO2.
An exact estimate of how fast the CO2 is emitted or absorbed is not possible at all. Hence an exact
estimate of the speed of deterioration of the atmosphere cannot be determined. This is because we do
not know the evolution of the emissions, not because of uncertainties of the carbon cycle.
Even if CO2 uptake by plants is increased, the CO2 emissions are not slowing down. Hence, the
atmospheric decay would continue. Wild plants are our key allies in making the civilization sustainable.
We should focus on protecting them and increasing their plantations because reducing CO2 emissions
could be a very tedious task, considering that fossil fuels are burned in all industrial processes.

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