Lewis H. Ziska is associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He served for nearly twenty-five years as a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, resigning in 2019 to protest interference by the Trump administration with his research into the effects of rising carbon dioxide on rice cultivation. His books include Agriculture, Climate Change, and Food Security in the Twenty-First Century: Our Daily Bread (2017).

Greenhouse Planet is not just another book about climate change. Ziska unpacks the science and politics of the climate-denying mantra that carbon dioxide feeds plants and greens the planet. More poisonous poison ivy, creeping kudzu, super weeds, and protein-deprived bees are some of the nuances that shatter the simplistic talking point. Fun to read and completely accessible, this book will help both scientists and nonscientists deepen their knowledge about the far-ranging effects of our changing atmosphere on the plants that underpin our very survival.

• PrefacePart I. A Green Blindness1. Plants Are Important: The Part About Food2. Plants Are Important: The Part About Drugs3. Plants Are Important: The Part About Religion4. Plants Are Important: The Part About Weeds5. Plants Are Important: The Part About Art—and AllergiesPart II. Plants and Magic6. Science Is Fundamental7. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Good8. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Bad9. The OMGPart III. CO2 Is Plant Food. Now What?10. More Questions Than Answers11. The Ten-Ton T. Rex in the Hall Closet12. Wait, What?Part IV. Politics and Pleas13. Cracks in the System14. Science Says15. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Last Bit16. A Personal NoteAfterword and ThanksNotesIndex

Lewis H. Ziska is associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He served for nearly twenty-five years as a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, resigning in 2019 to protest interference by the Trump administration with his research into the effects of rising carbon dioxide on rice cultivation. His books include Agriculture, Climate Change, and Food Security in the Twenty-First Century: Our Daily Bread (2017).

Greenhouse Planet is not just another book about climate change. Ziska unpacks the science and politics of the climate-denying mantra that carbon dioxide feeds plants and greens the planet. More poisonous poison ivy, creeping kudzu, super weeds, and protein-deprived bees are some of the nuances that shatter the simplistic talking point. Fun to read and completely accessible, this book will help both scientists and nonscientists deepen their knowledge about the far-ranging effects of our changing atmosphere on the plants that underpin our very survival.

• PrefacePart I. A Green Blindness1. Plants Are Important: The Part About Food2. Plants Are Important: The Part About Drugs3. Plants Are Important: The Part About Religion4. Plants Are Important: The Part About Weeds5. Plants Are Important: The Part About Art—and AllergiesPart II. Plants and Magic6. Science Is Fundamental7. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Good8. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Bad9. The OMGPart III. CO2 Is Plant Food. Now What?10. More Questions Than Answers11. The Ten-Ton T. Rex in the Hall Closet12. Wait, What?Part IV. Politics and Pleas13. Cracks in the System14. Science Says15. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Last Bit16. A Personal NoteAfterword and ThanksNotesIndex

Lewis H. Ziska is associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He served for nearly twenty-five years as a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, resigning in 2019 to protest interference by the Trump administration with his research into the effects of rising carbon dioxide on rice cultivation. His books include Agriculture, Climate Change, and Food Security in the Twenty-First Century: Our Daily Bread (2017).

Greenhouse Planet is not just another book about climate change. Ziska unpacks the science and politics of the climate-denying mantra that carbon dioxide feeds plants and greens the planet. More poisonous poison ivy, creeping kudzu, super weeds, and protein-deprived bees are some of the nuances that shatter the simplistic talking point. Fun to read and completely accessible, this book will help both scientists and nonscientists deepen their knowledge about the far-ranging effects of our changing atmosphere on the plants that underpin our very survival.

• PrefacePart I. A Green Blindness1. Plants Are Important: The Part About Food2. Plants Are Important: The Part About Drugs3. Plants Are Important: The Part About Religion4. Plants Are Important: The Part About Weeds5. Plants Are Important: The Part About Art—and AllergiesPart II. Plants and Magic6. Science Is Fundamental7. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Good8. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Bad9. The OMGPart III. CO2 Is Plant Food. Now What?10. More Questions Than Answers11. The Ten-Ton T. Rex in the Hall Closet12. Wait, What?Part IV. Politics and Pleas13. Cracks in the System14. Science Says15. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Last Bit16. A Personal NoteAfterword and ThanksNotesIndex