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Rejoice, the Earth Is Becoming Greener

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Rejoice, the Earth Is Becoming Greener - Foundation for Economic Education

In 2016, a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries that analyzed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14 percent increase in green vegetation over 30 years. The study attributed 70 percent 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.
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See, a bit of warming is good for us after all! :2wave:
 
Lord of Planar said:
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Did you make sure it was well-sourced??

:lamo

Of course not.

:lamo

Neither this article or any linked to provide the source of this.
 
Too bad food crops respond negatively to the changes in climate, stronger weeds, and more plentiful pest insects.

But hey, maybe we can just eat grass and trees.
 
Deuce said:
But hey, maybe we can just eat grass and trees.
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Thats what your side wants, the econuts want us all to eat bugs too.

Too bad food crops respond negatively to the changes in climate, stronger weeds, and more plentiful pest insects.
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The OP says the opposite. Crop yields are up.
 
PoS said:
Thats what your side wants, the econuts want us all to eat bugs too.



The OP says the opposite. Crop yields are up.
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Again with the single-variable thinking. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
 
CLAX1911 said:
Well cows eat grass it just grows wild in the field. Pigs eat slop. In chickens eat just about anything.
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Are you under the impression that the scale of meat production in our country is fed by... random ass plants growing in the wild?
 
Deuce said:
Are you under the impression that the scale of meat production in our country is fed by... random ass plants growing in the wild?
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No, but I don't buy this green veganism crap it's just another way to try and push that bizarre religion on people. So save your sermon for Sunday Padre.
 
CLAX1911 said:
No, but I don't buy this green veganism crap it's just another way to try and push that bizarre religion on people. So save your sermon for Sunday Padre.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. You're the one who apparently doesn't realize that our current meat production requires effort beyond just eating grass in the wild.
 
Deuce said:
Too bad food crops respond negatively to the changes in climate, stronger weeds, and more plentiful pest insects. But hey, maybe we can just eat grass and trees.
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Do tell. Details and sources.
 
Deuce said:
I have no idea what you are talking about. You're the one who apparently doesn't realize that our current meat production requires effort beyond just eating grass in the wild.
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Growing meat takes less acreage and does less damage to land for the amount of nutrients you get from it. that's why humans have been doing it for thousands of years.
 
CLAX1911 said:
Well cows eat grass it just grows wild in the field. Pigs eat slop. In chickens eat just about anything.
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LOL that reminds me. I was in Vietnam last year and eating at a rustic restaurant (which was really just a thatched roof with tables and chairs underneath it in the middle of a rice paddy), and they served me chicken and other delicious stuff. I noticed that a bunch of live chickens were running around the nearby bushes and trees, clucking and eating scraps that I threw at them, including chicken bones- so yes, they were cannibals.
 
PoS said:
LOL that reminds me. I was in Vietnam last year and eating at a rustic restaurant (which was really just a thatched roof with tables and chairs underneath it in the middle of a rice paddy), and they served me chicken and other delicious stuff. I noticed that a bunch of live chickens were running around the nearby bushes and trees, clucking and eating scraps that I threw at them, including chicken bones- so yes, they were cannibals.
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Chickens like many birds will eat just about anything. Like winged rats.
 
Deuce said:
Too bad food crops respond negatively to the changes in climate, stronger weeds, and more plentiful pest insects.

But hey, maybe we can just eat grass and trees.
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Without insects, the earth would probably be a dead rock in space.
 
Not a single warmer has yet provided and facts showing we are worse off with a warmer earth than better off. Every thing I have seen, tells me warmer is better.

More CO2 to grow food.

Higher latitudes of agriculture.

More people die of cold than heat.

No catastrophic events are shown to be cause by AGW. Correlation is not causation, and there is equal evidence catastrophic events decline.
 
Lord of Planar said:
Not a single warmer has yet provided and facts showing we are worse off with a warmer earth than better off. Every thing I have seen, tells me warmer is better.

More CO2 to grow food.

Higher latitudes of agriculture.

More people die of cold than heat.

No catastrophic events are shown to be cause by AGW. Correlation is not causation, and there is equal evidence catastrophic events decline.
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Effects | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
 
Buzz said:
Did you make sure it was well-sourced??

:lamo

Of course not.

:lamo

Neither this article or any linked to provide the source of this.
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Your 6th or 10th grade science or biology class should have taught you about the relationship
between CO2 and photosynthesis. You don't need any more source than that.
 
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