@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews 1/21》@jane_mcmullen, NASA satellites measure "how fossil fuels… have impacted the planet." This is their video about the most important effect:
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews 2/21》Here's NASA's article, which goes with the video:
nasa.gov/feature/goddar…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews 3/21》Rising CO2 levels (mostly from fossil fuels) are helping to "regreen" the Earth:
sealevel.info/learnmore.html…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews 4/21》None of the supposed negative impacts of elevated CO2 are actually happening, to a detectable degree. But higher CO2 levels are extremely beneficial for the Earth's ecosystems, especially in arid regions:
spacedaily.com/reports/Elevat…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews 5/21》Those benefits are especially impactful in sub-Saharan Africa. Here's an article from New Scientist @NewScientist:
sealevel.info/Owen2009_Sahar…
newscientist.com/article/dn2811…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist 6/21》Even National Geographic @NatGeo noticed (though they've scrubbed this article from their website):
sealevel.info/Owen2009_Sahar…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 7/21》In addition to benefiting natural ecosystems, extra CO2 is extremely beneficial for agriculture. Elevated CO2 makes agriculture more productive, and less vulnerable to droughts. That improves global food security, saves lives, and lowers food prices.
sealevel.info/learnmore.html…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 8/21》》Not only does CO2 make crops more productive & food more plentiful, through "CO2 fertilization," thus freeing land from agricultural use for reforestation, it also helps avert famines by mitigating drought impacts.
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 9/21》Rising CO2 levels have increased global agricultural productivity by about 20%, so far, and as levels continue to rise so does that figure.
sealevel.info/learnmore.html…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 10/21》Rising CO2 levels hare helping to make famines rare, for the first time in human history.
sealevel.info/learnmore.html…
High CO2 🡷 Low CO2 🡶
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 11/21》Are you are too young to remember when large-scale famines were often in the news? Then you might not appreciate what a very, VERY Big Deal it is that they are fading from memory. Consider yourself blessed!
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 12/21》Agronomists have done thousands of rigorous scientific studies, measuring the benefits of elevated CO2 on major crops.
They ALL benefit.
Every. Single. One.
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 13/21》Here are a couple of papers about studies of the benefits of elevated CO2 for wheat:
O'Leary GJ et al (2015)
doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12…
Fitzgerald GJ, et al (2016)
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26929390
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 14/21》It was once thought that C4 crops, like maize (corn), would benefit little from elevated CO2. But studies show that all important C4 crops, including maize, sugarcane, millet & sorghum, benefit greatly from more CO2, under common growing conditions.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 15/21》Legumes are grown for their high protein content, and they fix their own nitrogen — a boon where nitrogen fertilizer is unavailable or unaffordable. (That's almost everywhere, these days, thanks to artificially restricted natural gas supplies.)
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 16/21》The scientific evidence is compelling that manmade climate change is modest & benign, and CO2 emissions are beneficial, not harmful. Elevated CO2 is greening the Earth, and feeding her people.
co2coalition.org
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1532051…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 17/21》CO2 emissions have a slight, generally salubrious warming effect, but worrying about it is silly. The benefits of eCO2 are large and well-measured, the supposed harms are merely speculative and mostly implausible.
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 18/21》Scientists call the warmest periods "climate optimums." Science shows manmade climate change is modest & benign, and CO2 emissions are beneficial:
sealevel.info/learnmore.html
sealevel.info/Dutch_dike_vs_…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 19/21》The campaign to lower carbon emissions is a marketing strategy by the $1.5 Trillion/year climate industry. It's deeply anti-scientific, with catastrophic human impacts. "Climate action" kills thousands of Europeans each winter, through fuel poverty.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
@jane_mcmullen @EnergyVoiceNews @newscientist @NatGeo 20/21》If we didn't have the better crop yields we get from elevated CO2 levels, we could make up the difference by putting more land under the plow. Converting ALL the world's rainforests to agricultural use would nearly suffice. Is that what you want?
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