Leaf 'Sweat Glands' To Worsen Future Flooding

Let's see 110 ppm increase in CO2 due entirely to humans not anything else. Flooding due to the increase in CO2 is placed on, again, humans only. According to what I read I did not see anything else contributing. Once again supposed intelligent people placing all that they think is wrong with the world on the backs of us humans. Sadly yet again they fall into the trap of not correlating all aspects of global warming together. Is global warming happening? Of course, this ol' earth has been going thru warming and cooling cycles since she was created. Have humans contributed to global warming? Sure have. But we are not the sole blame here. What can we do? The USA is and has been curbing back emmisions, not at a rate to make everyone happy but we are doing so. If the whole world got on board and reduced emmisions contributing to global warming then we would be making progress, but alas the rest of the world would rather attack us rather then help by doing they're part.

From microscopic structures to international politics within the boundaries of one paragraph. Wow!

I agree completely. Where do these people get off calling themselves scientists.

I don't know what plant mechanism can pull minute amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air and then transport that carbon dioxide throughout its structure. It seems more likely that the carbon dioxide is entering the plant through its roots as a dissolved gas in rain or irrigation water. Whatever carbon dioxide that is not used by the plant would then exit the plant through the stomata pores along with nitrogen, oxygen, unused carbon dioxide, and other dissolved gasses. Perhaps some atmospheric carbon dioxide gets into the plant at night when some reverse cell functions become active. Even then, it is more likely that the carbon dioxide is dissolved in the night dew settling upon the leaves. This doesn't contradict the findings about stomata/carbon dioxide functions. It is just another slant on the process.

Hmmmmm . . . . just a 30 second visit to the website hosting this article clearly indicates what's at play here. I don't think you will find any dissenting or contrary evidence at the New Scientist Tech website. Just discard what doesn't fit your cause because some facts are just inconvenient truths. Heavens, we can't let anybody know that maybe we don't have all the answers. It can happen on both sides of any debate. Also, it's just that some people can't be happy unless they are championing some cause. Every decade, it's a different flavor cause. The de rigueur cause this decade appears to be global warming. Why, just look at the energy and carbon emissions expended for some feel good useless event on 7/7/07. That event surely curtailed worldwide carbon emissions every bit as much as Live Aid ended world hunger. After inventing the internet, we're going to "cure" this earth of its fever. Oh, by the way, my carbon footprint is about a size 12 as I am a carbon-based lifeform.