I read the study.

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2016/Q2/rising-co2-levels-reduce-protein-in-crucial-pollen-source-for-bees.html

The researchers noted, however, that this study only assessed pollen
protein levels and did not look at the impact of protein reductions on bee
health and populations.

"Our work suggests there is a strong possibility that decreases in pollen
protein could contribute to declines in bee health, but we haven't yet made
that final link," said Dukes, who is also director of the Purdue Climate
Change Research Center <http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/climate/>
housed in Discovery Park.

There certainly is a lot of heavy breathing over the simple word "could".
To then say that all the world's food supply is now is peril when the
researchers do not even know if bees are impacted is not science but
alarmism.

Peter stated the obvious when he noted that too much protein may not be
that good anyway. So we actually know nothing other than we have more
plants and less protein in goldenrod. And we are all going to die, but not
from reduce protein in Goldenrod.

Bill Truesdell

Bath, Maine

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