Uh-oh… Plants take in more CO₂ than thought, study finds.
A team from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, developed a new method for measuring how much CO₂ is absorbed and released by plants. Their study was published last month in the journal Nature. Using 30 years of data from a global network that analyses air samples to measure changes in greenhouse gases, pollution and other factors, they discovered that plants consume carbon dioxide 25 percent faster than previously thought.

The team’s finding suggests plants absorb 16 to 19 times mankind’s total CO₂ emissions, underscoring the powerful role they can play in regulating the climate.

 
Nature News discusses the significance of these results. Explaining that the findings help to further…

…debunk the myth that CO₂ is an overabundant environmental pollutant responsible for destroying the earth. Besides the fact that plants need CO₂ in order to produce oxygen for humans and animals to breathe — we would all die if plants did not have CO₂, after all — their newly-discovered, much-more rapid consumption of this vital element shows that, in all truth, CO₂ is not the threat that Al Gore and others claim it is.
 
The fluctuating activity of the sun in the form of sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (CME), for example, has a far greater impact on the earth’s atmospheric temperatures than do the burning of fossil fuels.

 
If the AGW (Anthropological Global Warming) crowd would stop setting themselves up as gods, filtering the data to support their exalted agenda, perhaps they would be able to follow the science, and come to appreciate the awesome efficiency in God’s creation, as reflected in nature’s ability to sustain life on our amazing planet.
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Related:
The AGW Smoking Gun ~ Further facts and figures disproving the AGW hypothesis that CO₂ has been trapping more greenhouse gases over the last 30 years.