The journal Nature Climate Change published a new study on the study of effects of carbon dioxide level on the greening on our land, according to the Environmental News Network. Defined as the ?amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that has resulted from the rising anthropogenic emissions that help the growth of plants by using carbon dioxide during photosynthesis,? the carbon fertilization results from the anthropogenic emissions that we are fully responsible of. Carbon fertilization is known to increase the crop yields, seemingly beneficial to the farmers.

Plants use energy through the process of photosynthesis. During this process, using sunlight, plants combine carbon dioxide from the air along with water and nutrients gained from the soil to produce glucose. The sugar produced during photosynthesis are mainly used for the fuel. Carbon dioxide fertilization makes this process way more complicated. Studies indicate that the increasing level of carbon dioxide encourage the plant growth, while increasing the greenhouse level in much faster rate. This overall increases the temperature and nitrogen concentration.

However, because other factors – such as the nitrogen concentration, climate change by rising temperature,precipitation and the amount of sunlight changes- all impact the greening effect,  Carbon dioxide fertilization has been studied using the data from the NASA- MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) and NOAA(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)-AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) satellites sensors in order to measure the accurate contribution of carbon dioxide to greening of the Earth.

The data from the studies indicated that the carbon dioxide fertilization influences around 70 percent of the green effect, according to professor Ranga Myneni at the department of Earth and Environment at Boston University.  Through this data, we were able to clearly see the heavy influence carbon dioxide has on the greening process. The trends show that the greening will continue, negatively impacting our weather and trigger droughts, floods, sea level rises, and ocean acidification.

Credit to: Environmentalresearchweb http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/54347

Environmental News Network http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/49501

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