Ziska Greenhouse Planet

How Rising CO2 Changes Plants and Life as We Know It
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55661-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Greenhouse Planet reveals the stakes of increased carbon dioxide for plants, people, and ecosystems—from crop yields to seasonal allergies and from wildfires to biodiversity. The veteran plant biologist Lewis H. Ziska confronts the claim that “CO2 is plant food,” showing why it is deeply misleading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ziska, Lewis H.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Gartenbau
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I. A Green Blindness
1. Plants Are Important: The Part About Food
2. Plants Are Important: The Part About Drugs
3. Plants Are Important: The Part About Religion
4. Plants Are Important: The Part About Weeds
5. Plants Are Important: The Part About Art—and Allergies
Part II. Plants and Magic
6. Science Is Fundamental
7. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Good
8. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Bad
9. The OMG
Part III. CO2 Is Plant Food. Now What?
10. More Questions Than Answers
11. The Ten-Ton T. Rex in the Hall Closet
12. Wait, What?
Part IV. Politics and Pleas
13. Cracks in the System
14. Science Says
15. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Last Bit
16. A Personal Note
Afterword and Thanks
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lewis H. Ziska is associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He served for nearly twenty-five years as a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, resigning in 2019 to protest interference by the Trump administration with his research into the effects of rising carbon dioxide on rice cultivation. His books include Agriculture, Climate Change, and Food Security in the Twenty-First Century: Our Daily Bread (2017).