The Klimate Kids, Or Climate Children, Whatever You Prefer, Want Ice And Snow And Colder Weather... Why?

[AlleyCat]

It's all a ruse. If the climate screechers here had to choose from a colder
climate or a warmer one, which one do you think they'd pick, if they weren't on
a mission to see their agendas fulfilled?

Ask one. See if she wants to live on a world with 8.5 billion people and
nothing to eat and diseases running rampant because a colder human body can't
fight diseases as well, when it's shivering.

A colder planet will have less wind AND less sunlight, so you'd be screwed
without fossil fuels.

Do they REALLY want to be sickly and starving, or do they want what we have
now... more food? Funny, how you fuckers are always crying about Malaria and
other maladies, and conveniently forget about the plagues that killed too many
to count, that happened in COLDER CLIMATES.

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In 2016 a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in 8 countries
that analyzed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14%
increase in green vegetation over 30 years.

This is what WE want:

https://www.humanprogress.org/ridley-rejoice-the-earth-is-becoming-greener/

Amid all the talk of an imminent planetary catastrophe caused by emissions of
carbon dioxide, another fact is often ignored: global greening is happening
faster than climate change. The amount of vegetation growing on the earth has
been increasing every year for at least 30 years. The evidence comes from the
growth rate of plants and from satellite data.

In 2016 a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight
countries that analysed satellite data and concluded that there had been a
roughly 14% increase in green vegetation over 30 years. The study attributed
70% of this increase to the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The lead
author on the study, Zaichun Zhu of Beijing University, says this is equivalent
to adding a new continent of green vegetation twice the size of the mainland
United States.

Global greening has affected all ecosystems - from arctic tundra to coral reefs
to plankton to tropical rain forests - but shows up most strongly in arid
places like the Sahel region of Africa, where desertification has largely now
reversed. This is because plants lose less water in the process of absorbing
carbon dioxide if the concentration of carbon dioxide is higher. Ecosystems and
farms will be less water-stressed at the end of this century than they are
today during periods of low rainfall.

There should have been no surprise about this news. Thousands of experiments
have been conducted over many years in which levels of CO2 had been increased
over crops or wild ecosystems and boosted their growth. The owners of
commercial greenhouses usually pump CO2 into the air to speed up the growth of
plants. CO2 is plant food.

This greening is good news. It means more food for insects and deer, for
elephants and mice, for fish and whales. It means higher yields for farmers;
indeed, the effect has probably added about $3 trillion to farm incomes over
the last 30 years. So less land is needed to feed the human population and more
can be spared for wildlife instead.

Yet this never gets mentioned. In their desperation to keep the fear-mongering
on track the activists who make a living off the climate change scare do their
best to ignore this inconvenient truth. When they cannot avoid the subject,
they say that greening is a temporary phenomenon that will reverse in the
latter part of this century. The evidence for this claim comes from a few
models fed with extreme assumptions, so it cannot be trusted.

This biological phenomenon can also help to explain the coming and going of ice
ages. It has always been a puzzle that ice ages grow gradually colder for tens
of thousands of years, then suddenly warmer again in the space of a few
thousand years, at which point the huge ice caps of Eurasia and North America
collapse and the world enters a warmer interlude, such as the one we have been
enjoying for 10,000 years.

Attempts to explain this cyclical pattern have mostly failed so far. Carbon
dioxide levels track the change, but these rise after the world starts to warm
and fall after the world starts to cool, so they are not the cause. Changes in
the shape of the earth's orbit play a role, with ice sheets collapsing when the
northern summers are especially warm, but only some of these so-called "great
summers" result in deglaciation.

Recent ice cores from the Antarctic appear to have fingered the culprit at
last: it's all about plants. During ice ages, the level of carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere steadily drops, because colder oceans absorb more of the gas.
Eventually it reaches such a low level - about 0.018% at the peak of the last
ice age - that plants struggle to grow at all, especially in dry areas or at
high altitudes. As a result gigantic dust storms blanket the entire planet,
reaching even Antarctica, where the amount of dust in the ice spikes
dramatically upward. These dust storms blacken the northern ice sheets in
particular, making them highly vulnerable to rapid melting when the next great
summer arrives. The ice age was a horrible time to be alive even in the
tropics: cold, dry, dusty and far less plant life than today.

As Svante Arrhenius, the Swede who first measured the greenhouse effect, said:
"By the influence of the increasing percentage of carbonic acid in the
atmosphere, we may hope to enjoy ages with more equable and better climates."
Enjoy the lush greenery of the current world and enjoy the fact that green
vegetation is changing faster than global average temperatures.

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