Revolution: Plants Absorb a Third More CO2 than Expected

For decades it was clearly underestimated how much CO2 the plants absorb by photosynthesis at all. An error with consequences, which could be corrected thanks to a new, creative measuring method. This means that the previously highly unreliable climate models have to be adapted. Sometimes it is the simplest discoveries that change everything. Just like a student named Alexander Fleming forgot to clean his Petri dishes and discovered the penicill…