As we all know plants absorb the CO2 from the atmosphere. Yet in the past decade there has been a drop in the world's net primary production, or, how much CO2 the world's plants absorb. from 1982 to 1999 the production rose about six percent. the in the last decade it has dropped about one percent. that might not seem like a lot, yet that's about 550 metric tons less then the last decade. scientists mainly think this is happening because of droughts, with less water plants start to die. the sudden droughts are thought to be related to growing climate temperature, or it may be just normal weather patterns.
This is related to science beacsue net primary productio is an important theory in science. it is the amount of CO2 absorbed by all of the plants in the world minus what they use for growth. this gives scientists an idea of how much global wraming is effecting us. Global warming is the theory that greenhouse gases are reacting with the ozone layer and destroying it, while keeping heat from bouncing off of the Earth into space.
Global warming is one of the biggest problems we face today.. this article gives a great look at how it is affecting plants. Global warming is slowly heating up the Earth, with this rise in temperature water starts to evaporate quicker. with this heightened evaporation plants start to die. especially in the Amazon rainforest where thousands of trees have already died because of drought. now that we know what is happening with the plants we can try to mend the problem.
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