Weeds.... harm or help us in Climate Change?

Weeds are often seen as a farmer's or gardener's worst enemy, that's why we have herbicides or spend time trying to get rid of weeds. According to the NYTimes, it seems that some scientist did a study and realise that with climate change, weeds actually will grow stronger, faster and bigger. It seems an increase in temperature and CO2 content encourages this.

While this seems to spell doom for all farmers and our ability for feed the world, it is good to note that this could provide a solution as well.... the article did point out that often then not mankind turn to weeds and found ways to domesticate them into food crops. Surprisingly rice was actually a weed previously. But what will truly be the effect, or will there be any at all, this is really something we can only wait and see....

Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate Crisis?

Source [NYTimes]

Lewis Ziska, a lanky, sandy-haired weed ecologist with the Agriculture Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, matches a dry sense of humor with tired eyes. The humor is essential to Ziska’s exploration of what global climate change could do to mankind’s relationship with weeds; there are many days, he confesses, when his goal becomes nothing more than not ending up in a fetal position beneath his battleship gray, government-issue desk. Yet he speaks of weeds with admiration as well as apprehension, and even with hope. [Full Story here]