🧵You often hear human induced climate change skeptics (especially those funded by fossil fuel lobby groups) say "CO2 is plant food" but this two part video explores what they deny about the damaging climate change impacts on food security and farms. Sources later in the thread.

Part 2: Is more CO2 good for crops? Hint: No Sources in the next 3 tweets.

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Youtube full video is found here :

More on William Happer and his fossil fuel lobby group funded climate denial group, the CO2 coalition.

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That six-fold increase in the use of nitrogen fertilizer over the past 60 years is completely ignored by people proclaiming the unmitigated benefits of CO2 to crop yields.

Exactly.

When I'm "debating" them I say, "sure, it's food, but like us plants need more than just food. They need the right temperatures, not too hot, not too cold, and they need the right soil moisture, not too much, not too little—and both of those require the right timing."

The goldilocks effect😀. I was thinking of using the sugar analogy, humans can eat sugar but too much can cause diabetes.