CO2 - It's GOOD for the planet - Granite Grok

CO2 – It’s GOOD for the planet

Sun-light-through-the-treesYeah, 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,”

Nature Climate Change

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).

Nature Climate Change

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)

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