Photosynthesis moves carbon from the air back to the ground. One of the contributing factors to global warming is the decrease in plant life through deforestation and ocean pollution. Increasing photosynthesis can reduce global warming but it would have to be on a massive scale to make a significant difference. Planting trees, protecting rain forests, protecting and reseeding plankton would all increase photosynthesis but only to the point of reducing the reduction caused by human activity.
Artificial trees that use artificial photosynthesis to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere is one geoengineering solution that some people are working on. It can be accomplished technologically but there is nobody able and willing to pay the many trillions of dollars it would cost to do enough.
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Photosynthesis moves carbon from the air back to the ground. One of the contributing factors to global warming is the decrease in plant life through deforestation and ocean pollution. Increasing photosynthesis can reduce global warming but it would have to be on a massive scale to make a significant difference. Planting trees, protecting rain forests, protecting and reseeding plankton would all increase photosynthesis but only to the point of reducing the reduction caused by human activity.
Artificial trees that use artificial photosynthesis to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere is one geoengineering solution that some people are working on. It can be accomplished technologically but there is nobody able and willing to pay the many trillions of dollars it would cost to do enough.
Photosythesis CREATED our climate, our planet was like Mars and Venus one time, with over 90% CO2 until cyanobacteria came along more than 3 billion years ago, and by photosynthesis quitely started turning CO2 into oxygen and carbon, later forms of life like plankton, turned CO2 into oxygen and calcium carbonate, a large proportion of Earths crustal rocks (limestone chalk ect) were formed this way.
Contrary to what Alph and Stubby says photosynthesis can help with atmospheric CO2, if we allow it to do so, our Earths topsoil contains 3 times as much carbon as our atmosphere does, but we keep releasing it with our poor agriculture methods (ploughing and tilling releases CO2) we could easily increase soil carbon content, but that would not increase taxes and governmental control over us.
A recent study indicates that it might.
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-co2-atmosph...
In this study increased photosynthesis in plants due to higher co2 levels may account for up to 17% of the discrepancy between projected co2 effects & actual observed effects.
humans are putting out co2 Faster than the plant can absorb. so...very little effect. see keeling curve.
plants can't keep up or deal with the tons of co2 that's put in the air every day
