An “unusual greening of the planet,” reports German science magazine Wissenschaft. “A paradox.”
Has been greening for three decades
While it is widely reported how the world’s rainforests are being chopped down, Wissenschaft reports, “Vegetation on earth has been expanding for decades, satellite data show.”
Yes, the planet is in fact greening, and this is embarrassing climate alarmists, who over the years managed to mislead much of the media and public into believing the planet has been “browning” and thirsting to death.
Confirmed by IPCC
“The opposite is the case: according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, satellite observations show a greening of vegetation over the past three decades in parts of Asia, Europe, South America, Central North America, and Southeast Australia,” reports Wissenschaft magazine.
“Although there are regions that would become browner, the bottom line is that there is a larger area on our planet that is greened than browned.”
Thanks to CO2 fertilization
For the welcome trend, scientists attribute the surprising development on “a mixture of factors,” foremost the recent increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, which plants thrive on and humans have been misled into believing is a “pollutant.”
“It is often forgotten that CO2 is not only a ‘problem’ but also a plant nutrient” that forms a crucial part of the “basis of the food chain,” reported Wissenschaft. In short: More atmospheric CO2 means more plant growth, and thus more food for more life.”
That has become an inconvenient fact for alarmists and climate activists, who insist life on the planet is dying.
Rainforests still threatened
Other suspected contributing factors include nitrogen deposition, land-use changes, and reforestation projects.
But Wissenschaft warns that man-made greenery through agriculture and reforestation falls far short in terms of biotope quality, and so the destruction of virgin rainforests remains a huge problem that requires real action.
Wissenschaft summarizes: “The bottom line, most experts say, is that from an ecological point of view the phenomenon of greening cannot replace the losses.”
CO2 lending a huge hand of support
The good thing: More CO2 in the atmosphere will certainly make the job of protecting vegetation and life far easier.
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Many professional green house operators artificially raise the level inside to the range of 1600 to 1800 ppm. This shows that plants thrive on higher concentrations.
When can we start teaching this in our schools.
“It is often forgotten that CO2 is not only a “problem”, but also a plant nutrient: plants absorb the gas via their stomata from the air and produce from it in the context of photosynthesis high-energy compounds, which form the basis of the food chain.” …… did they intentionally forget to include photosynthesis also produces OXYGEN?
“The bottom line, according to most experts, is that, ecologically speaking, the phenomenon of greening can not replace losses.”…. how is it a “phenomenon” when the greening is directly attributed to rising atmospheric CO2 levels?
https://www.wissenschaft.de/umwelt-natur/dem-seltsamen-ergruenen-der-welt-auf-der-spur/
CO2 is not a “problem” except for the climate alarmists (they could have chosen CO as their villainous pollutant but that would have been a lie too). Often forgotten fact: without greenhouse gases, the average temperature of Earth’s surface would be about −18 °C (0 °F), rather than the present average of 15 °C (59 °F).
The bottom line without the BS… CO2 is not a problem. CO2 is not a villainous pollutant.
CO2 is an all natural plant nutrient: plants absorb the gas via their stomata from the air and produce from it in the context of photosynthesis high-energy compounds and OXYGEN. The chemical energy is stored in carbohydrate molecules, such as sugars, which are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water.
Photosynthesis is solely dependent upon CO2, photosynthesis is solely responsible for producing and maintaining the FREE BREATHABLE OXYGEN content of the Earth’s atmosphere and photosynthesis supplies all of the organic compounds and most of the caloric energy necessary for all life on Earth.
Made possible by water, we oxygen breathers exist today due to this most basic of symbiotic relationships: the free breathable oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere exists solely as a result of living “things” on it which absorb carbon dioxide and replace it with oxygen and other living “things” on it which absorb oxygen and replace it with CO2.
Plants need CO2 to survive and so CO2 is needed and so regulating it would be a big time act of ignorance and stupidity by the Eco-Freaks