{"id":8267,"date":"2016-09-06T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8267"},"modified":"2016-09-06T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T20:15:02","slug":"climate-change-field-test-shows-more-co2-does-not-increase-plant-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/09\/climate-change-field-test-shows-more-co2-does-not-increase-plant-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change field test shows more CO2 does not increase plant growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Minneapolis Times-Tribune<\/em> published an Associated Press report this week on a 17-year study undertaken by Stanford University scientists to test the impact of more carbon dioxide, more heat, and more nitrogen on plant growth in test plots outside Los Angeles. \u00a0Test plots (132 in all) were treated with different amounts of carbon dioxide or nitrogen or heated two degrees Centigrade to simulate the climate that is expected to occur in the second half of the 21st century. \u00a0The results showed that contrary to expectations, more carbon dioxide did not increase plant growth, and higher temperatures reduced plant health and growth. \u00a0Only increases in nitrogen increased plant growth. \u00a0You can read more about their findings at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/future-climate-change-field-test-doesn-t-make-earth-greener\/392357051\/\">https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/future-climate-change-field-test-doesn-t-make-earth-greener\/392357051\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8268\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/stanford-test-plots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8268\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/stanford-test-plots-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Nona Chiariello, Associated Press\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/stanford-test-plots-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/stanford-test-plots-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/stanford-test-plots-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/stanford-test-plots.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Nona Chiariello, Associated Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis Times-Tribune published an Associated Press report this week on a 17-year study undertaken by Stanford University scientists to test the impact of more carbon dioxide, more heat, and more nitrogen on plant growth in test plots outside Los Angeles. \u00a0Test plots (132 in all) were treated with different amounts of carbon dioxide or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":8268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8269,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267\/revisions\/8269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}