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@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 1/11 Nobody "denies climate change," of course. Anyone who knows anything about climatology knows that is not what the climate debate is about.

I'm part of "the scientific consensus on climate change," and so is Anthony Watts:

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@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 2/11 The climate change debate isn't about whether climate change is real. It's about scale, attribution & effects of climate change. The compelling evidence is that manmade climate change is modest & benign, and CO2 emissions are beneficial, not harmful.

@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 3/11 Thanks to rising CO2 levels and anthropogenic climate change, both wild and domestic plants and animals are thriving:
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@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 4/11 Deserts are retreating, and the Earth is "greening," thanks to rising CO2 levels and climate change.

spacedaily.com/reports/Elevat…

@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 5/11 NASA measures it from satellites.

@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 6/11 spacedaily.com/reports/Elevat…

@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 7/11 Elevated CO2 is hugely beneficial for crops, a fact which has been known to science for >100 years.

tinyurl.com/1920sciamCO2

@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 8/11 There have been thousands of peer-reviewed papers and robust scientific studies, measuring the benefits of elevated CO2 — which climate activists uniformly ignore or deny.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26929390

@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 9/11 Elevated CO2 is dramatically beneficial to almost all plants in arid conditions. It's one of the reasons major drought-triggered famines are fam­ines increas­ingly rare, for the first time in human history. That's a very, 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 Big Deal.
ourworldindata.org/famines

@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 10/11 Famine used to be a scourge comparable to war & epidemic. For comparison: WWII killed ≈2.7% of the world's population, and the 1918 flu pandemic killed ≈2% of the world's population. But the global drought and famine of 1876-78 killed about 3.7% of the worlds population.

@Dardedar @IBergwiesel @rahmstorf @IngersolRobert 11/11 Famine was the "Third Horseman of the Apocalypse." But now it's a fading memory.

Elevated CO2 is not the only cause for that wonderful change, but it is one of the important causes.
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