Thread by @ncdave4life

@TRF_Climate @WFP For the first time in human history, large scale, drought-induced famines no longer happen — in substantial part because of rising CO2 levels.

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@TRF_Climate @WFP This is what mankind's CO2 emissions are doing to the planet (NASA video):

@TRF_Climate @WFP CO2 emissions are changing whole ecosystems:

@NatGeo : "Vast swaths of North Africa are getting noticeably lusher due to warming temperatures, new satellite images show, suggesting a possible boon for people living in the driest part of the continent."
sealevel.info/Owen2009_Sahar…

@TRF_Climate @WFP @NatGeo The claim that southern Madagascar's famine threat is caused by manmade climate change is brazenly dishonest, and has no scientific basis.

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@TRF_Climate @WFP @NatGeo Just 40 years ago Madagascar (and much of the rest of Africa!) had a MUCH worse drought & famine. The average atmospheric CO2 level then was only 340 ppmv. What do you think caused that one?
nytimes.com/1981/03/26/wor…

@TRF_Climate @WFP @NatGeo Do you understand graphs? You can't blame droughts on anthropogenic climate change if you understand graphs like these:

@TRF_Climate @WFP @NatGeo It's hard to convince people of the lie that rising CO2 levels threaten food security if they know anything about agronomy, because agronomists know that elevated CO2 helps mitigate drought impacts.

@TRF_Climate @WFP @NatGeo Here's why other parts of the world have surplus food that they can send to southern Madagascar, in their time of need:

@TRF_Climate @WFP @NatGeo The benefits of elevated CO2 for crops is long-settled science. Those benefits have been documented and measured by thousands of robust scientific studies.
sealevel.info/C3_and_C4_Pfla…

@TRF_Climate @WFP @NatGeo The fact that CO2 is very good for crops have been known to science for over a century. Here's a Scientific American article about it from 1920!!!
tinyurl.com/1920sciamCO2

@TRF_Climate @WFP @NatGeo It is hard to dupe people into blaming famines on CO2 emissions if they're old enough to remember when major famines were often in the news, in places like Africa and Bangladesh, or if they understand graphs like this one:

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