Plant Growth Could Slow Global Warming
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Australian scientists have found the Earth may be more resilient to global warming than first thought, and they say a warmer world means a wetter planet, encouraging more plants to grow and soak up greenhouse gases.
“As the world warms, it is, on average, getting wetter,” almost 100 Australian greenhouse scientists said in an annual statement on their research received on Wednesday.
A wetter and cloudier world would see more plants and more photosynthesis to counter greenhouse gases and also mean less evaporation as less solar radiation reaches the Earth, the scientists said
