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Submission + - Crop nutrition down 3.2% in under 4 decades due to rising CO2 levels

Submitted by GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH writes: It's a well-understood phenomenon that rising CO2 levels decrease crop nutrition, but now Futurism reports that Dutch researchers have tallied the recent damage: in a survey of 43 different crops, nutrients were found to have fallen an average of 3.2% since the late '80s. Higher CO2 levels cause crops to gain biomass faster without absorbing nutrients at an accelerated rate and with decreased water consumption, resulting in lower nutrient concentration. “The plant is becoming more efficient, but it’s occurring at a price, from a human perspective,” Lewis Ziska, a plant biologist at Columbia University who studied the phenomenon for more than two decades, told WaPo. Previous studies have estimated that by 2050, this effect could cause zinc deficiency to affect an additional 175 million people, protein deficiency to affect an additional 122 million, and could decrease iron uptake by 4% while 1.4 billion women of childbearing age and children under 5 already live in countries with anemia rates of over 20%.

Comment Re:ah yes, evil China (Score 1) 73

by cusco (#66121512) Attached to: Convicted Former Harvard Scientist Rebuilds Brain Computer Lab In China

How frelling long have you had your head in the sand?

When Israel started its project the US shipped (according to the IDF) over 25,000 tons of weapons just in the first six months, most of it at US taxpayer expense. Yes, your tax dollars and mine helped Israel kill tens or hundreds of thousands of children and those of us who complained about being made party to a genocide were derided as 'antisemitic'. The shipment of free weapons to slaughter civilians continues, by the way.

So the US imposing a blockade on Cuba and causing widespread hunger is somehow "not our doing"? I'm not really clear how that is supposed to work, care to explain?

"This one" disrupted the flow of 20% of the world oil supply because:
1) Iran controls the sea lanes necessary for its transport
2) Iran said that if it were attacked then it would close the Strait of Hormuz
3) The US/Israel gratuitously attacked Iran
4) Twenty percent of world petroleum and natural gas was bottled up in the Persian Gulf and remains there

Is that clear enough for you? Yeesh.

Comment Re:ah yes, evil China (Score 1) 73

by cusco (#66121496) Attached to: Convicted Former Harvard Scientist Rebuilds Brain Computer Lab In China

We are the Evil Empire.

I had one over-arching criteria during the 2024 election: I would not vote for anyone who supported genocide. Doesn't seem like a high bar to pass, does it? No one leading either major party or several of the smaller ones could bring themselves to say, "Genocide is wrong and I won't use your tax dollars to fund one."

**sigh**

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