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A Startling New Discovery Could Destroy All Those Global Warming Doomsday Forecasts
2018-04-10
Climate Change: Scientists just discovered a massive, heretofore unknown, source of nitrogen. Why does this matter? Because it could dramatically change those dire global warming forecasts that everybody claims are based on "settled science."
Only those with power or grant money do
The researchers, whose findings were published in the prestigious journal Science, say they've determined that the idea that the only source of nitrogen for plant life came from the air is wrong. There are vast storehouses in the planet's bedrock that plants also feed on.

This is potentially huge news, since what it means is that there is a vastly larger supply of nitrogen than previously believed.
Posted by:DarthVader

#11  The Science Is Settledâ„¢ dammit, deniers! Excelsior! Consensusy
Posted by: Frank G   2018-04-10 20:43  

#10  This news is going to come as a shock to the vegan Global Warriors.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-04-10 19:38  

#9  Yes, the plants get it from dirt...and fertilizer. This is why plants only grow in good dirt, instead of just everywhere...thinking more on it, haven't we always known this?
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-04-10 17:43  

#8  This NPR article is a bit more informative. The nitrogen is in sedimentary rock.

Nitrogen in the atmosphere is unavailable to plants, it's pretty inert. Nitrogen fixation is needed, which can be by bacteria or, in lesser amounts, from lightning.
Posted by: KBK   2018-04-10 14:34  

#7   Atmospheric Nitrogen severely limited- to 78%

From 2013, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/13072512502.
Posted by: Alistaire Clunter7986   2018-04-10 11:52  

#6  This kind of thing is why they are so funny. Especially the look when you ask them, "You DO understand how science actually works right? You took hard science classes in college?" *blink* "No?"
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-04-10 11:41  

#5  They'll try to bury the evidence.
Posted by: gorb   2018-04-10 11:13  

#4  tree roots are, in large part, fracking devices so this N theory seems to make some sense
Posted by: lord garth   2018-04-10 10:31  

#3  It's commonly known among farmers that planting clover enriches the soil with nitrogen.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2018-04-10 10:25  

#2  Atmospheric Nitrogen severely limited- to 78%
Posted by: Grunter   2018-04-10 10:15  

#1  Fracking Nitrogen?
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-04-10 09:58  

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