“Farmers pump CO2 into greenhouses as plants love it so much. Higher atmospheric CO2 levels would also benefit reforestation by enhancing plant growth and creating more resilient microclimates.”
What Climate Fact Checks found
Half-truth. In unmanaged forests, fields, and other ecosystems, plant growth is influenced by various other factors, as opposed to the results scientists obtain in the laboratory, which are typically not representative of what occurs in the immensely more complicated real world.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 17 July 2023. Climate Fact Checks (India) looked into it and published its finding on 20 July 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “Partly False”.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by Climate Fact Checks, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.