On: Lockheed Martin has obtained a patent for a compact fusion reactor

[QasimK]

Is this some kind of a joke? Global warming, full stop. Plants are not starved, they were ubiquitous until we chopped “most” of them down.

[mkempe → QasimK]

It's science.

Land-based plants evolved when CO2 levels were much higher than today. [1] In fact levels have been steadily declining from 3000 ppm 150 million years ago; the current, holocene rise is a relatively minor bump. [2]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692178/

[2] http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/pghosh/content/Publication...

[mkempe → mkempe]

And by the way global temperature 150 million years ago was the same as today, +/- 2deg C.

[chiefalchemist → mkempe]

Could be. But the bio-make up of the planet was different then, yes?