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Yes, more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere helps plants grow, but it's no excuse to downplay climate change
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Latimer Alder on Twitter: "Basic plant science for non-scientsists Carbon dioxide is not 'pollution'. It is plant food. Plants cannot live without CO2...like we can't live without food. And there is no
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