After the second lot of research showing that CO2 is good for plants (whoever thought it wasn’t) we all know what the next tranche of research is going to focus on!

Within a few months or years, we will start to see what I am already calling “Triffid research” … stories about this or that weed is spreading “uncontrollably” as a result of CO2 and causing “devastation” to <add some vaguely causal link to something newsworthy>.

We sceptics can’t stop the academic obsessions. They are intent on proving that CO2 is “bad”. But at least when it happens I’ll be able to pull out this article and say “I told you this would happen” with headlines like:-

“Triffid killer weeds about to invade farmland, water, woodland, etc. causing $billions of loss to farmers, trees, parrots, one-legged sailors …, academics (again) claim this shows CO2 is a pollutant (not)”.

And in the meantime, unreported by any academics the farmers will go laughing all the way to the bank as a result of their massive harvests, the forests (not being cut down for bird-mincers) will flourish and the seas will swarm with fish (except for those caught by the fishermen … who will be reporting record catches).