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My guess would be that plants optimize also for absorbing a significant amount of the light they receive from the blue sky, so they still get some when direct sunlight isn't available.
I hate that one misclick can delete my comment.
Would that be a natural, logical discernment for someone trying to figure out why chlorophyll is green? I say that this is an unhinged take and everyone siding with it should feel like... an amount of bad. It's pretty misleading by virtue.
This comment here had a much more grounded explanation
I mean, I love it and thanks for sharing, but it's a pretty poor discernment for why "blue air" makes chlorophyll green. Sure, plants might be opportunistic in a respect and attempt to move to a color direction that gathers the maximum amount of the sun's rays. Why was the initial post, "sky blue, sun yellowish = plant green"? Why was that met with agreement?
It's not something that any Biologist would yield to as an explanation. Even if they respected themselves. (Sorry, Biologists. I know.)