Posted on 03/09/2017 5:18:36 PM PST by Stopthethreat
Increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) have helped boost green foliage across the world's arid regions over the past 30 years through a process called CO2 fertilisation, according to CSIRO research.
In findings based on satellite observations, CSIRO, in collaboration with the Australian National University (ANU), found that this CO2 fertilisation correlated with an 11 per cent increase in foliage cover from 1982-2010 across parts of the arid areas studied in Australia, North America, the Middle East and Africa, according to CSIRO research scientist, Dr Randall Donohue.
"In Australia, our native vegetation is superbly adapted to surviving in arid environments and it consequently uses water very efficiently," Dr Donohue said. "Australian vegetation seems quite sensitive to CO2 fertilisation.
This, along with the vast extents of arid landscapes, means Australia featured prominently in our results."
"While a CO2 effect on foliage response has long been speculated, until now it has been difficult to demonstrate," according to Dr Donohue.
"Our work was able to tease-out the CO2 fertilisation effect by using mathematical modelling together with satellite data adjusted to take out the observed effects of other influences such as precipitation, air temperature, the amount of light, and land-use changes."
The fertilisation effect occurs where elevated CO2 enables a leaf during photosynthesis, the process by which green plants convert sunlight into sugar, to extract more carbon from the air or lose less water to the air, or both.
If elevated CO2 causes the water use of individual leaves to drop, plants in arid environments will respond by increasing their total numbers of leaves. These changes in leaf cover can be detected by satellite, particularly in deserts and savannas where the cover is less complete than in wet locations, according to Dr Donohue.
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We have those nasty critters all over the southwest.
here’s an example:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/africa/fog-catchers-morocco/index.html
videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xn7YTzPydE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLfwBA-_BS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8rQ5aHAnuE
But S.P.A.G.S - the Society of the Protection of Acromantulas and Giant Spiders claims that various sub-species are endangered because of global warming and greening and must be protected.
Plenty of dew around pre Noah because it had never rained until the clouds of heaven opened up and flooded the earth.
If you believe The Bible and I do.
Eco-greenies must be experiencing an acute vapor lock of mental conflict over this.
Check it out
September 2015- the narrative is CO2 greening Sahel naturally through climate change
http://www.naturalnews.com/051252_climate_change_regreening_extreme_weather.html
February 2017- narrative changes to man made project from environmental do gooders “Great Green Wall of Sahel”
http://m.dw.com/en/the-great-green-wall-of-the-sahel/a-37709247
Why does that surprise anyone??? The planet Earth knows how to take care of itself and needs no help from mere humans to remain viable.
yup- CO2 has risen from just 0.00134% of the atmsophere all the way up to 0.00136% now- Why at this rate- the north pole will be all greenied up in another week or so
What? Camel spiders?
The scorpions, not the band from Germany.
The better it is for plants, the better it is for you and me. Plants create the oxygen we breathe.
Thank you both.
Dr S. Fred Singer was RIGHT!? CO2 really IS plant food!?
Who knew?
So .. the plan is to kill all the humans ..??
They’re the ones exhaling the C02.
No C02 .. NO PLANT LIFE.
NO PLANT LIFE .. NO OXYGEN FOR HUMANS.
TOO BAD THEY DON’T TEACH THIS STUFF IN SCHOOL ANYMORE.
bfl
Increased rainfall in those regions has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the greening - mere coincidence. It is definitely manmade CO2 causing these areas to lose their desert status and all the harm to desert creatures - oh woe is us ....
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