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Size and age of plants impact their productivity more than climate

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This is an interesting study, but... (Score: 2, Insightful)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-07-22 15:20 (#2M7)

...while the basic conclusion is clear and presumably backed up by the analysis, the abstract leaves open the question of how climate indirectly influences the size and age of the plants... Perhaps this is/was beyond the scope of the given study.

Re: This is an interesting study, but... (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-07-22 21:12 (#2MA)

Perhaps this is/was beyond the scope of the given study.
... and if so, it's yet another maddening example of a study only barely answering some questions while opening up so many other lines of inquiry that it fails to do much good at all, unless you consider "indefinite further research studies for interested scientists" a public good.

Re: This is an interesting study, but... (Score: 2, Insightful)

by danieldvorkin@pipedot.org on 2014-07-24 03:32 (#2MQ)

unless you consider "indefinite further research studies for interested scientists" a public good
Considering that's pretty much how science has always worked, well, yes, it is. There will never come a time when science does not raise more questions than it answers, and given the results of that process so far, it's hard to see how it could be anything else.

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