Worldwide Slowdown in Plant Carbon Uptake

As we all know plants absorb the CO2 from the atmosphere. yet in the past decade there has been a drop in the world's net primary production, or, how much energy plants produce. from 1982 to 1999 the production rose about six percent. the nin the last decade it has dropped about one percent. that might not seem like a lot, yet that's about 550 metric tons less CO2 absorbed then the years before. scientists mainly think this is because of droughts , with less water plants start to die. the sudden droughts are thought to be related to growing climate temperature, or it may just be normal weather patterns.

This is related to science because net primary production is an important theory in science. it is the amount of energy that plants produce minus what they use for growth. this gives scientists an idea of how much CO2 the plants are using, and how Global Warming is affecting them. Glabal warming is the theory that greenhouse gases, like methane, form a barrier over the Earth that traps heat that qould normally go into space.

Global Warming is one of the biggest problems we face today. this article gives a great look at how it is affecting plants. Global warming is slowly heating up the Earth, and with this rise in temperature water starts to evaporate quicker. with this heightened evaporation plants start to dehydrate and die. especially in the Amazonian rainforest where thousands of trees have already died. Now that scientist have an idea of what is happening they can find ways to stop it.