Posted on 10/12/2015 10:45:26 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the GWPF:
London 12 October: In an important new report published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, former IPCC delegate Dr Indur Goklany calls for a reassessment of carbon dioxide, which he says has many benefits for the natural world and for humankind.
Dr Goklany said: “Carbon dioxide fertilises plants, and emissions from fossil fuels have already had a hugely beneficial effect on crops, increasing yields by at least 10-15%. This has not only been good for humankind but for the natural world too, because an acre of land that is not used for crops is an acre of land that is left for nature”.
Pointing to estimates that the current value of the carbon dioxide fertilisation effect on global crop production is about $140 billion a year, he notes that this additional production has helped reduce hunger and advance human well-being.
But the benefits go much further than this. It is not only crops that benefit from this “carbon dioxide fertilisation effect”: almost without exception, the wild places of the Earth have become greener in recent decades, .largely as a direct result of carbon dioxide increases. In fact, it has been shown that carbon dioxide can increase plants’ water-use efficiency too, making them more resilient to drought, so that there is a double benefit in arid parts of the world.
And as Dr Goklany points out: “Unlike the claims of future global warming disasters these benefits are firmly established and are being felt now. Yet despite this the media overlook the good news and the public remain in the dark. My report should begin to restore a little balance.”
In a powerful foreword to the report, the world-renowned physicist Professor Freeman Dyson FRS endorses Goklany’s conclusions and provides a devastating analysis of why “a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts”, arguing that “the thinking of politicians and scientists about controversial issues today is still tribal”.
The report is available here: benefits-of-co2 (PDF, 2.7mb)
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Look at all the electric cars in California .... an’ lookee heah in red neck south wi’them great big ol’ pick-em-up trucks ... yee haw !
Got it?
Carbon dioxide is plant food. If CO2 goes below a certain level, there is a major die off of plant life.
And how much of CA power, which BTW powers those electric cars, comes from out of state? That way they can claim to be environmentally friendly.
and..... biomasss of American forests has increased dramatically in the last 50 years
"Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy, normally from the Sun, into chemical energy that can be later released to fuel the organisms' activities. This chemical energy is stored in carbohydrate molecules, such as sugars, which are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water – hence the name photosynthesis, from the Greek φῶς, phÅs, "light", and σύνθεσις, synthesis, "putting together".[1][2][3] In most cases, oxygen is also released as a waste product."--Wikipedia.
“”calls for a reassessment of carbon dioxide, which he says has many benefits for the natural world and for humankind.””
Well, shucks then - make it illegal. Can’t have beneficial effects from it and certainly can’t have this report advertised!! Hang the scientist...
A lot.
Then factor in the transmission losses, 50%, and it becomes stupidity.
California passed a massive many, many billion$ bond issue still being paid for, to remove dams in the state.
Forty years later, they passed another massive many many billion$ bond issue to "improve" water supply management in the state for the benefit of... bugs, bunnies, junk fish and wacky, ignorant "greenies."
Meanwhile the government and management by the stupid, created the current man-made drought, and is killing more billions of useful fish, insects, bunnies, crops and trees and, soon, perhaps, people than anyone could imagine.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
And they whine when the lights flicker and go out... RE: the brown out of a few years ago.
You’d think that they would have learned. And it is not a trivial thing to build a new power plant. It takes years and a lot of money.
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