@CoveringClimate @Farawarner @Swati_Sanyal_T @soljourno The best scientific evidence shows that manmade global warming is modest & benign, and CO2 emissions are beneficial, not harmful. Thousands of scientific studies have documented the agricultural benefits, and scientists call warm periods climate optimums.
@CoveringClimate @Farawarner @Swati_Sanyal_T @soljourno The evidence is compelling that the "social cost of carbon" is negative. Here are some relevant scientific papers.
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@CoveringClimate @Farawarner @Swati_Sanyal_T @soljourno Our slightly (+140 ppmv) elevated CO2 level has improved agricultural yields an average of ≈20%, and substantially mitigated drought impacts. That is a Very, VERY Big Deal.
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High CO2 🡷 Low CO2 🡶
@CoveringClimate @Farawarner @Swati_Sanyal_T @soljourno If you're too young to recall catastrophic famines, you're blessed! Famine was the "Third Horseman of the Apocalypse." Horrific famines often devastated places like Bangladesh & Africa.
But they're fading from living memory, for the first time in history.
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@CoveringClimate @Farawarner @Swati_Sanyal_T @soljourno It's impossible to overstate the importance of that. Compare:
● Covid-19 has killed about 0.1% of world population, so far
● The 1918 flu killed ≈2%
● WWII killed ≈2.7%
● But the Great Drought & Famine of 1876-78 killed ≈3.7% of world population
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@CoveringClimate @Farawarner @Swati_Sanyal_T @soljourno The scientific evidence is compelling that manmade global warming is real, but modest and benign, and that CO2 emissions are beneficial, not harmful. Learn more about the SCIENCE of climate change, here:
sealevel.info/learnmore.html
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