Yeah, I’m betting that the NIMBY and BANANA enviros that hate all energy other than solar are going to watch each other’s heads explode:
CO2 Increasing Food Production And Plant Water Efficiency:
Two new papers in the journal “Nature Climate Change” are pointing out the positive benefits of increased Co2 . The first claims that increased CO2 concentrations account for 70% of the increased greening of the earth and increased plant growing seasons
“We show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area, whereas less than 4% of the globe shows decreasing LAI (browning). Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70% of the observed greening trend,”
While the second shows increased CO2 levels allow plants to make better use of water We find CO2 effects increase global CWP by 10%–27% (median[interquartile range] across the model ensemble) by the 2080s depending on crop types, with particularly large increases in arid regions (by up to 48% for rainfed wheat).
The extra growth so far is roughly equivalent to four billion giant sequoias. With a world population due to hit nine billion in the near future, I have to count this a good thing and ask just why did we want less CO2 again ?
All we ever hear is doom and gloom – there is NEVER an upside with the global alarmists. What you also never hear from these watermelon environmentalists (who really are Statists who are “not wasting a crisis”) is that Man is the most adaptable of any species on the planet. Frankly, I view our National Debt or the Clash of Civilizations as being far more disruptive and more dangerous than climate change (which has always been in motion). (H/T: RedState)