@PierreTherrie14 @richardabetts @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @KaoHua3 @GeorgeMonbiot @MichaelEMann @ErikSolheim @Fridays4future @parents4future @CaseyJo69404276 @jerry_jtaylor @christt Both of those are myths, Pierre.
Re: sea-level...
@PierreTherrie14 @richardabetts @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @KaoHua3 @GeorgeMonbiot @MichaelEMann @ErikSolheim @Fridays4future @parents4future @CaseyJo69404276 @jerry_jtaylor @christt Re: Desertification...
Read, and learn:
sealevel.info/greening_earth…
E.g., see that dark green band extending the width of Africa? That's the Sahel (southern Sahara), greening.
@PierreTherrie14 @richardabetts @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @KaoHua3 @GeorgeMonbiot @MichaelEMann @ErikSolheim @Fridays4future @parents4future @CaseyJo69404276 @jerry_jtaylor @christt Here's a New Scientist article about it:
sealevel.info/Pearce2002_Afr…
@PierreTherrie14 @richardabetts @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @KaoHua3 @GeorgeMonbiot @MichaelEMann @ErikSolheim @Fridays4future @parents4future @CaseyJo69404276 @jerry_jtaylor @christt Here's a National Geographic article about it:
sealevel.info/Owen2009_Sahar…
As they reported, the benefits are "indisputable."
@PierreTherrie14 @richardabetts @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @KaoHua3 @GeorgeMonbiot @MichaelEMann @ErikSolheim @Fridays4future @parents4future @CaseyJo69404276 @jerry_jtaylor @christt This is not new information. The benefits of eCO2 for crops have been known to science for over a century. Here's a Scientific American article from 100 years ago:
tinyurl.com/1920sciamCO2
@PierreTherrie14 @richardabetts @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @KaoHua3 @GeorgeMonbiot @MichaelEMann @ErikSolheim @Fridays4future @parents4future @CaseyJo69404276 @jerry_jtaylor @christt The science is conclusive. Agronomists have conducted thousands of careful studies, measuring the benefits of eCO2 for crops and other plants.
@PierreTherrie14 @richardabetts @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @KaoHua3 @GeorgeMonbiot @MichaelEMann @ErikSolheim @Fridays4future @parents4future @CaseyJo69404276 @jerry_jtaylor @christt Rising CO2 level is one of the major reasons that drought-triggered famines are now almost unknown, for the first time in human history.
sealevel.info/learnmore.html
@PierreTherrie14 @richardabetts @GeraldKutney @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @KaoHua3 @GeorgeMonbiot @MichaelEMann @ErikSolheim @Fridays4future @parents4future @CaseyJo69404276 @jerry_jtaylor @christt That is a VERY Big Deal. Drought-triggered famine was the "Third Horseman of the Apocalypse." It was always one of great scourges of mankind, along with war and disease. But now it is almost unheard of.
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