Posted on 05/02/2019 6:38:28 AM PDT by Enlightened1
In direct contradiction to the scare stories about carbon dioxide being relentlessly pushed by the climate change alarmists, a scientific study published in Nature Climate Change and highlighted by NASA reveals that rising carbon dioxide levels are having a tremendously positive impact on the re-greening of planet Earth over the last three decades, with some regions experiencing over a 50% increase in plant life.
The study, entitled, “Greening of the Earth and its drivers,” used satellite data to track and map the expansion of green plant growth across the globe from 1982 – 2015. Published in 2016, this study found that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide causes “fertilization” of plant life, resulting in a remarkable acceleration of increased “greening” across every Earth continent. As the study abstract explains:
We show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area… Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70% of the observed greening trend…
In other words, the planet is getting greener, and we have rising CO2 levels to thank for it, since rising CO2 accounts for about 70% of the increase in planet-wide greening, according to scientists. The more CO2 we release into the atmosphere, the more nutrients are available for plants, and the more rapidly the Earth is re-greened.
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NASA Declares Carbon Dioxide Is Greening The Earth
And FWIW, a warmer planet is a wetter planet.
Oops!
President Trump should take credit for making the world green again. Tweak the snowflakes.
Science was my weakest school subject and this was always obvious to me. Curious how none of the ‘experts’ have taken this into consideration.
You know this is going to have the pseudo city slicker Environmentalists, skin a buck and run a trotline, into complete meltdown mode.
Carbon Dioxide is plant food.
They take it in and release oxygen in return.
Those of us who stayed awake in second grade science class already know this. Apparently the global warming crowd does not.
Saying that CO2 makes plants grow is not likely to get you a new grant!
**CORRECTION****
You know this is going to have the pseudo city slicker Environmentalists, that cannot skin a buck or run a trotline, into complete meltdown mode.
Duh!
And just now they figured that out?
Completely unexpected! /s
I like a warmer planet myself.
Exactly. This is the Earth reestablishing the balance of nature.
The idiotic idea of building a machine to draw CO2 from the air is the most stupid yet. If tried, plant life would just be reduced, thus putting less oxygen into the air.
Gee, whodathunkit?!
Well.....Duh....It’s why the Grass is always greener in the Cow Pasteur.
> rising carbon dioxide levels are having a tremendously positive impact on the re-greening of planet Earth <
How the heck did that statement get past the censors? Oops, I meant the editors.
Cut it down, now! Pave it over! Don’t let it multiply!
It’s nature’s answer to recycling. Any other viewpoint is just plain dumb.
The funny part is that our oceans are a “CO2 sink” As the temperature gets colder, the CO2 is sucked into the ocean. And as it gets warmer, the CO2 is released from the ocean.
There is a reason for this. CO2 is actually a coolant. This is why it was a lagging factor in AlGore’s video. We are witnessing, thanks to our technology, the world’s HVAC doing what it was designed to do.
It’s not about us.
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