Part 10/15:
News from Portugal’s marine forests initially sounded promising—kelp beds are recognized as significant carbon sinks and biodiversity supporters. Yet further scrutiny reveals that climate change could threaten kelp, potentially decreasing its capacity to store carbon. The assumption that climate change uniformly harms all ecosystems is simplistic; in some cases, increased CO₂ could stimulate plant growth, including that of kelp.
This highlights the tendency of alarmist reporting to oversimplify ecological responses, ignoring the complex, sometimes contradictory ways in which natural systems react to changing conditions.