Posted on 03/02/2021 8:13:38 AM PST by Hojczyk
Zoe Phin has a post on this topic at her site which really warrants attention.
Global Vegetation Index surges 10% in 20 years
Zoe downloaded all of NASA’s available 16-day-increment vegetation data from 2000 to 2021. Here’s her result:
NASA’s Vegetation Index has risen from 0.0936 to 0.1029, which is a 9.94% increase. “10% global greening in 20 years! We are incredibly fortunate!” Zoe comments on the results. “I just wish everyone felt that way. But you know not everyone does. To the extent that humans enhance global greening is precisely what social parasites want to tax and regulate. No good deed goes unpunished.”
Been greening 30 years!
This is not unexpected news to cool-headed climate realists. In August, 2019, we reported on a German study showing how the globe had been greening for 3 decades. Based on satellite imagery, German Wissenschaft reported, “Vegetation on earth has been expanding for decades, satellite data show.”
Sahara shrinking, becoming greener
Also not long ago a study by Venter et al (2018) found the Sahara desert had shrunk by 8% over the previous three decades. This is profound because the Sahara covers a vast area of some 9.2 million square kilometers. Eight percent means more than 700,000 square kilometers more area that’s become green – an area almost as big as Germany and France combined.
So in terms of vegetation, the planet probably hasn’t had it this nice in about 1000 years.
70% driven by CO2
And there’s more good news if you think CO2 is a problem as a greenhouse gas (it isn’t).
There are many more studies underpinning the good news of the greening planet – thanks in large part to mankind. It’s not as bad as the crybaby activists and media depict it to be. Not even close.
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
The Sahara is shrinking?
Where will the polar bears live now?
I was informed the Sahara was an ocean floor once, so why not a bed of vegetation? Besides, we here don’t need any more of those transoceanic dust storms!!
The Sahara has a lot of ancient lake and riverbeds. It was green once before, so that it might go back to being green isn’t unbelievable.
Stoopid glowbull warming.
OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
“if the government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
“The Sahara has a lot of ancient lake and riverbeds. It was green once before”
Around 2,000 years back, during the Roman Empire, it was small and moist enough that they could routinely cross on horseback, and North Africa was the breadbasket for their grain production.
8,000 years back it was positively verdant, with hippos and such.
I’ve always wondered where all that sand came from.................
CO2 - to feed a growing-hungry planet.
So, when will the real estate speculators start buying lots.
Where will the polar bears live now?
Not at Coke a Cola
Ping.
So same fro Greenland? Actually turning green again like in the Middle Ages when the Vikings plundered near and far?
It’s getting greener, but who wants snakes and baboons for neighbors?
I mean besides San Franciscans.
Have you ever gone to a Coke bottling plant?
All the junkie polar bears lined up outside the gate begging for a bottle.
Sad.....really sad.....
Certainly not. They’re too white.
Guess you haven’t seen my backyard........
I have long held that the world is suffering from a CO2 drought and that an increase in atmospheric CO2 is a GOOD thing.
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