@thelindscape @skdh @sciam 1/9》Silly they used a photo of a wildfire. Fires are unrelated to climate change. Main factors affecting fires are land management & forestry practices, not climate.
Fires haven't worsened, anyhow. NASA measures fire trends by satellite; here's an article
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/90493/r…
@thelindscape @skdh @sciam 2/9》Elevated CO2 helps warm the Earth, but there's no convincing evidence that's harmful. In fact, scientists call warm climate periods "climate optimums."
Plus, elevated CO2 is VERY beneficial for agriculture — a fact known to science for >100 years.
tinyurl.com/1920sciamCO2
@thelindscape @skdh @sciam 3/9》Elevated CO2 improves crop yields & mitigates drought impacts. That's helping make famines rare for first time in history.
ourworldindata.org/famines
sealevel.info/Famine-death-r…
@thelindscape @skdh @sciam 4/9》CO2 emissions are causing dramatic improvements in critical ecosystems.
sealevel.info/Pearce2002_Afr…
@thelindscape @skdh @sciam 5/9》In 2009 @NatGeo reported, "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…
@thelindscape @skdh @sciam @NatGeo 6/9》Not everybody at NASA is cloistered in GISS's NYC offices, writing fanciful, untestable computer models. NASA also employs excellent scientists who take real measurements, like these:
@thelindscape @skdh @sciam @NatGeo 7/9》The best evidence shows that manmade climate change is real, but modest & benign, and CO2 emissions are highly beneficial.
The major harms are all merely hypothetical (& mostly implausible). The benefits are real, measured & very large.
@thelindscape @skdh @sciam @NatGeo 8/9》Here's another article about fires:
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145421/…
EXCERPT:
"...MODIS [satellite instruments have measured] a decrease in the total number of square kilometers burned each year. Between 2003 and 2019, that number has dropped by roughly 25 percent."
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