Does an increase of carbon dioxide in the air, prompt an increase in the production of oxygen by plants?

Question

Will the plants grow bigger, faster, reproduce faster, and therefore be able to break down more carbon dioxide, or will the mass destruction of trees and other chlorophyll based plant life on earth prevent that.

Answer 1

• Background Elevated levels of atmospheric [CO2] are likely to enhance photosynthesis and plant growth, which, in turn, should result in increased specific and whole-plant respiration rates. However, a large body of literature has shown that specific respiration rates of plant tissues are often reduced when plants are exposed to, or grown at, high [CO2] due to direct effects on enzymes and indirect effects derived from changes in the plant's chemical composition.

But you can always grow plants on the moon if you want to
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Answer 2

More Carbon Dioxide increases the rate of photosynthesis. The problem is plants can not offset the increasing amount of Carbon Dioxide in the air. That is why their is more acid rain, lung cancer (not dealing with smoking), and global warmings.

Answer 3

Folks, do you actually believe that the earth is going to heat up so hot, so fast that plant life is not going to have the ability to catch up. There is abundant evidence that during earlier warming phases that plant life was abundant in areas that are now covered by dessert. This was attributed to the increased rainfall in the regions due to increased water vapor(the most abundant greehouse gas by the way) in the atmosphere due to higher temps around the globe.

The amount that CO2 is expected to increase more than likely will not benefit the plants that much, but increased rainfall will.

Answer 4

Each type of plant or tree takes in a different amount of CO2. won't increase.

I saw tests NASA did on plants in sealed boxes when I was in the business. A Spider plant is the best air cleaner of house plants.

Answer 5

Did you know that most of the carbon dioxide produced in the world comes from the oceans

Answer 6

Unfortunately , it is not as simple as that. There are less trees in the area where there are pollutants. They mostly rise up as smog and mix with water clouds to come down on earth as acid rain.

Answer 7

Not if the deserts increase in size.

Answer 8

dud wrong,,o2 levels are way the fuuk down,,,and pollution is up....sinners repent the end is near,,,decider