Scientists have known for many years that increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) have helped boost green foliage across the world’s arid regions.
Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), for instance, published a study in 2013 that found that CO2 fertilization correlated with an 11 percent increase in foliage cover from 1982-2010 across parts of the arid areas studied in Australia, North America, the Middle East, and Africa.
This map shows the changes in foliage cover over that period, derived from satellite data.
They explain:
‘The fertilization 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.’
Another study from Boston University in 2016 discovered that carbon dioxide emissions from industrial society had driven huge growth in trees and other plants.
Satellites showed that there had been significant greening of something between 25 percent and 50 percent of the Earth’s vegetated land over the last 33 years, while just 4 percent of vegetated land has suffered from plant loss.
Other studies have found that the Sahara has shrunk by 8 percent in the same period.
Now, up-to-date data from NASA confirms that these trends have continued and that the planet is 10 percent greener than in 2000.
In any sane world, this fact would be welcomed. It may be one of the reasons why the UN Food and Agricultural Organization is forecasting a record world grain harvest this year.
Instead, we demonize carbon dioxide.
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Australia has experienced significant greening. This should not surprise. Australia is the driest inhabited continent and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide not only acts as a fertiliser for plants, it reduces drought stress.
This is truly settled science, being proven by reproducible experiments, something that has never been achieved for the anthropogenic climate change theory.
And what they don’t need in the land Down Under is like here in America No Globalists,No Global Government under the United Nations Thumb
Note to Earthlings : your lungs exhale CO2@ 40,000ppm. If you stop doing that, you’re dead. Carbon dioxide is not toxic. CO2 is not a pollutant. It’s not even a problem. It’s vital!
Those who think the so called gay 90’s before the turn of the century was Pollution Free and No smog but their wrong Horse Manure was everywhere in the Cities Coal Fires and plenty of smoke(Our coal today burn much more cleaner)no Air Conditioners no electrical Homes Open Sewers no running water and no screen dores and windows to keep out the bugs
We have noticeable greening where we live in SE Queensland and where we formerly lived in the New England area of NSW. Of particular note is the extremely lush growth after a bad bushfire in early 2019. The growth is quite amazing with dense regrowth and regeration.
More good news about the precious, life-giving, beneficial trace gas, CO2.
We need CO2 we don’t need anymore idiotic regulations that limits how far you can drive from your home and we don’t need the Useless Nations and worthless treaties signed by the usial tyrants and despots who keep their people living in poverty while they live like Kings and get standing ovations from t he Useless Nations
Scientific report saying CO2 is good for the earth. Expect that one to never see the light of day in mainstream media.
4 percent of vegetated land has suffered from plant loss — count on those areas being highlighted by scientific journals. Nevermind the 25-50% of the earth getting greener.