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High carbon dioxide levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects

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When levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their leaves. Now scientists have shown that this reaction by plants will actually worsen climate change by making the global 'carbon sink' contributed by plants less productive.

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"High carbon dioxide levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects", MachPrinciple, October 05, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/High-carbon-dioxide-levels-cause-plants-to-thicken-their-leaves-could-worsen-climate-change-effects

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