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The Very Good Effect of More CO2
Ever since the late Margaret Mead organized a conference in 1975 to
deliberately propagate an unscientific fear campaign, fraudulently
claiming that manmade emissions of CO2 gases were endangering the global
climate, the UN, countless NGOs and many governments have spent billions
of dollars trying to find ways to reduce CO2 “man-made” emissions. In
those days it was known as Global Warming until measured temperatures
began falling, whereupon when the sponsors of the colossal scientific
fraud changed the name to Climate Change. The campaign has largely
failed, fortunately for the future of life on the planet. One indication
of a return to scientific honesty is a study just published by
Washington’s NASA on the effects of CO2 across the planet since the 1980s.
A new scientific study published in April in the journal Nature Climate
Change reveals that between 25% up to possibly 50% of Earth’s vegetated
lands have shown significant greening over the last 35 years. Moreover,
the study says that the greening is largely due to rising levels of
atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The study was carried out by an international scientific team consisting
of 32 scientific authors from 24 institutions in eight countries. They
used satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very
High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area
index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions.
They found that the measured greening represents an increase in leaves
on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental
United States. The research determined that increased “fertilization” by
CO2 accounted for fully 70% of the planet’s increased greening area,
with increased nitrogen deposition another 9%. That’s an impressive
statistic.
A recent National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) review of
the CO2 findings noted that, “Green leaves use energy from sunlight
through photosynthesis to chemically combine carbon dioxide drawn in
from the air with water and nutrients tapped from the ground to produce
sugars, which are the main source of food, fiber and fuel for life on
Earth. Studies have shown that increased concentrations of carbon
dioxide increase photosynthesis, spurring plant growth.”
The report’s lead author, Zaichun Zhu, a researcher from Beijing
University, pointed out that the extent of the greening over the past 35
years “has the ability to fundamentally change the cycling of water and
carbon in the climate system.”
What does it mean in terms of life on our planet?
USDA’s Kimball Study
It has quite a lot to do with life on our planet, and very positively
so. Over the years, ever since 1804 when Swiss plant physiologist
Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure first demonstrated that peas exposed to
high C02 concentrations grew better than control plants in ambient air,
numerous experiments have been performed to determine the effects of
enriched C02 atmospheres on plants.
In 1982 Dr. Bruce A. Kimball, a plant physiologist at the Agricultural
Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture undertook a
comprehensive review of all such studies on effects of higher CO2
concentrations on plant growth and agriculture yields. Kimball found
that C02 enrichment had an overwhelmingly positive effect on yield. Of
437 separate observations only 39 yielded less than their respective
controls.
In brief, the billions of taxpayer dollars that have gone to study ways
of burying or otherwise eliminating CO2 from our atmosphere are little
more than attempts to diminish one of the essential drivers of “the main
source of food, fiber and fuel for life on Earth.” Perhaps the future of
our planet is not as bleak as doomsday prophets like Bill Gates or Al
Gore claim.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a
degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling
author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New
Eastern Outlook”
http://journal-neo.org/2016/05/13/the-very-good-effect-of-more-co2/
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The Very Good Effect of More CO2
Ever since the late Margaret Mead organized a conference in 1975 to
deliberately propagate an unscientific fear campaign, fraudulently
claiming that manmade emissions of CO2 gases were endangering the global
climate, the UN, countless NGOs and many governments have spent billions
of dollars trying to find ways to reduce CO2 “man-made” emissions. In
those days it was known as Global Warming until measured temperatures
began falling, whereupon when the sponsors of the colossal scientific
fraud changed the name to Climate Change. The campaign has largely
failed, fortunately for the future of life on the planet. One indication
of a return to scientific honesty is a study just published by
Washington’s NASA on the effects of CO2 across the planet since the 1980s.
A new scientific study published in April in the journal Nature Climate
Change reveals that between 25% up to possibly 50% of Earth’s vegetated
lands have shown significant greening over the last 35 years. Moreover,
the study says that the greening is largely due to rising levels of
atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The study was carried out by an international scientific team consisting
of 32 scientific authors from 24 institutions in eight countries. They
used satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very
High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area
index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions.
They found that the measured greening represents an increase in leaves
on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental
United States. The research determined that increased “fertilization” by
CO2 accounted for fully 70% of the planet’s increased greening area,
with increased nitrogen deposition another 9%. That’s an impressive
statistic.
A recent National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) review of
the CO2 findings noted that, “Green leaves use energy from sunlight
through photosynthesis to chemically combine carbon dioxide drawn in
from the air with water and nutrients tapped from the ground to produce
sugars, which are the main source of food, fiber and fuel for life on
Earth. Studies have shown that increased concentrations of carbon
dioxide increase photosynthesis, spurring plant growth.”
The report’s lead author, Zaichun Zhu, a researcher from Beijing
University, pointed out that the extent of the greening over the past 35
years “has the ability to fundamentally change the cycling of water and
carbon in the climate system.”
What does it mean in terms of life on our planet?
USDA’s Kimball Study
It has quite a lot to do with life on our planet, and very positively
so. Over the years, ever since 1804 when Swiss plant physiologist
Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure first demonstrated that peas exposed to
high C02 concentrations grew better than control plants in ambient air,
numerous experiments have been performed to determine the effects of
enriched C02 atmospheres on plants.
In 1982 Dr. Bruce A. Kimball, a plant physiologist at the Agricultural
Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture undertook a
comprehensive review of all such studies on effects of higher CO2
concentrations on plant growth and agriculture yields. Kimball found
that C02 enrichment had an overwhelmingly positive effect on yield. Of
437 separate observations only 39 yielded less than their respective
controls.
In brief, the billions of taxpayer dollars that have gone to study ways
of burying or otherwise eliminating CO2 from our atmosphere are little
more than attempts to diminish one of the essential drivers of “the main
source of food, fiber and fuel for life on Earth.” Perhaps the future of
our planet is not as bleak as doomsday prophets like Bill Gates or Al
Gore claim.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a
degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling
author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New
Eastern Outlook”
http://journal-neo.org/2016/05/13/the-very-good-effect-of-more-co2/
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