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This is why it’s important for us to develop C4 alternatives to existing C3-using food staples.

https://c4rice.com/the-science/engineering-photosynthesis-wh...

Not that you’re wrong, but I find it darkly amusing that rather than than cut back on all the crazy things we’re doing, it would make sense to instead bio engineer a bunch of plant life to deal instead.
What's the connection? I thought the Ci would be Koppen climate classification but it's actually alternate carbon-fixing photosynthetic processes
You can, if you keep them cool with shade and water if it's not excessively humid.

I practice zone denial with a shade house and have things like rhubarb, cilantro and lettuce growing right now. It's been over 100F many days this summer and these would not make it outside. I also have many varieties of tomatoes and pretty sure I'm the only one the region who does because they would not set fruit outside in these temperatures.

If it's a dry climate and you have water and shade, you can turn it into a moderate or cool climate.

My tomatoes a week ago or so https://youtube.com/shorts/wRHiiCCICmc?feature=share

Joey has really pushed boundaries on botany. Great to see his thoughts being discussed here. I think everyone could learn something from him
I’m looking into building a shadehouse. I think I need that a lot more than my greenhouse, especially as the climate changes. Summers are just brutal and my garden plants getting some shade some of the day under trees are doing a lot better than ones in full sun.
but who wants to grow slime and mold anyway?!?
Apparently I have cool climate plants: apple, avocado, lavender those are germinated from seeds and blackberry, and fig from cuttings also living in a hot and humid climate. Definitely they can grow here, but can they be farmed? Of course not without expensive climate controls
And you can not grow hot-climate plants in heating up cool zones, as the swings winter to summer remain. We need to transport possible neophytes that wont survive in the bulbbelt up the temperature zones and help them via selective breeding to acclimate.
Great blog I bookmarked it. It’s so hard to find articles written at this level.
Good thing we're not doing anything silly like heating the entire planet. That would be a very alarming finding if we were.
Wouldn't a hydroponic setup help the author with this?

Dumb question, but is it difficult to setup a temperature and humidity controlled box or room where you could stow away the plants at night? A possibly dumber question, why do hydroponics always seem to involve indoor/UV lighting? Why are there no container-sized setups that you can place outdoors, but the climate and sun-light is controlled, and it's all powered by solar energy?

(sorry for all the dumb questions, i don't know anything about this topic)

In southern Sweden the vast spruce forests are starting to die because of the spruce bark beetle. You can see it everywhere now.

Supposedly due to warmer summers.

And new planatation replace spruce by larch or leaf trees.

Luckily they don't seem to affect pine trees, but they have their own climate expectations.

Pine tree suffer from other parasites and notably sphaeropsis fungus
It is a solar powered ratchet, warm nights make it fail