In this article from Biology News Net, October 1, 2010, it is said that forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could withdraw several billion tons of Carbon from the atmosphere each year, and so it will help ameliorate global warming, according to estimates published in the October issue of BioScience.
The study was done by researches at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory that outline the finding of the trees and plants natural absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They noticed that these plants would know how to convert the carbon dioxide into long-lived forms of carbon. Thus this would keep carbon inside the plants letting out the oxygen being able to keep carbon out of the air reducing the effect of global warming.
Besides the fact of genetically increasing the plants absorbing light, the researchers have discovered that they can make it possible to genetically alter plants to absorb the carbon into their roots releasing it into the soil which will in return keep the carbon out of circulation from the atmosphere for centuries to come.
This is a significant finding by scientists because first off they are willing to explore for alternatives on resources to reduce global warming. These types of researches will improve the quality of air in the atmosphere and ultimately reduce the global warming for future generations to come. Second, with these findings of genetically altering the plants to absorb the carbon dioxide taking out the carbon from the air and reproducing pure oxygen back into the air will be cleaner to breath and the pollution in the air will be greatly reduced. This article is a great finding and shows that scientists across the world are working on a way to reduce pollution and in return reduce the effect of global warming which has been growing as a great concern to today's society. Yet, these observations and experiments have not been put into effect in society for, they are just a mere baby step in what is to come for the future. They are in the right direction of ways to reduce global warming and when these experiments are perfected and are no harm to society these motions will start taking effect across the world.
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ReplyDeleteWhat exactly would happen if carbon continued to destroy the atmosphere and is there a known date global warming will occur?
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The rising temperatures will cause the icecaps to melt and water levels will rise dramatically. This is the short term problem, but when this happens, the freshwater melted from the icecaps of Greenland will actually stop the Thermo-Haline current which brings warm water/energy to the northern hemisphere. When the warm water stops flowing north then the earth will actually go into the next ice age. So whoever manages to survive the part of global warming most likely won't survive the ice age that follows. There is no set date global warming will actually happen, or if it even will happen. But the evidence is there that this could very well occur if we don't find a way to protect the atmosphere from harmful toxins.