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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein 1/28》Climate activists don't call it a crisis for nothing. $1.5 trillion/yr ain't "nothing."
It's all about the Benjamins. They call it a crisis to prop up support for feeding Piggy. The parasitic climate industry needs a LOT of propaganda to support it. sealevel.info/1.5_Trillion_D…

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein 2/28》Many scientists at NASA still do real science, instead of huddling over computers in GISS's NYC office, playing with computer models. NASA satellites measure effects of CO2 emissions & manmade climate change, from space. Here's NASA's video about it:

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein 3/28》The improvements to the Earth's climate due to CO2 emissions were correctly predicted by the great Nobel laurate and pioneer climatologist Svante Arrhenius, over a century ago.
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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein 4/28》Temperatures rose over the last century, but on average < 1°C. What's more, the warming is disproportionately at night & in winter, at chilly high latitudes, where it's unambiguously beneficial.
Plus, eCO2 has improved global avg crop yields ≈20%.
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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein 5/28》Way back in 1920 @SciAm reported on the tremendous benefits for agriculture, of CO2 emissions. (They tested using filtered blast furnace exhaust.) It's so beneficial they called CO2 "the precious air fertilizer."
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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam 6/28》The benefits of elevated CO2 have been settled science for >100 years. Of course, that's agronomy: a far more rigorous field than "climate science."

Here's the practical effect of differing CO2 levels (among other factors).

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam 7/28》Here's how elevated CO2 ("eCO2") benefits wheat:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26929390

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam 8/28》Here's how eCO2 benefits corn/maize (which, significantly, is a C4 crop):
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam 9/28》eCO2 is especially beneficial for legumes, like beans, peas, and alfalfa, which are grown for their protein content. So eCO2 helps mitigate protein shortages in poor countries. Here's a paper:
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam 10/28》Thousands of rigorous studies have determined that eCO2 is very beneficial for ALL major crops.
co2science.org/data/plant_gro…

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam 11/28》eCO2 also enables plants to use water more efficiently. It does so by increasing carbon uptake relative to transpiration. In other words, when grown with higher CO2 levels, plants need less water to get the carbon they need from CO2 in the atmosphere.

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam 12/28》That's especially helpful in arid regions, and during droughts. Here's a paper:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam 13/28》EXCERPT:
"There have been many studies on the interaction of CO2 and water on plant growth. Under elevated CO2, less water is used to produce each unit of dry matter by reducing stomatal conductance."

That's settled science, yet most climate scientists are ignorant of it.

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam 14/28》CO2 emissions benefit 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."
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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 15/28》Claims that CO2 is harmful are based on politics, superstition, and pecuniary interests, not on science.

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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 16/28》The scientific evidence is compelling that manmade climate change is modest & benign, and CO2 emissions are overwhelmingly beneficial.

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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 17/28》The supposed significant harms from CO2 emissions simply aren't happening. E.g., sea-level trends have hardly changed at all.

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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 18/28》Hurricanes and nor'easters have not worsened, and strong tornadoes have declined in frequency.

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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 19/28》Contrary to climate industry propaganda, CO2 emissions do not worsen forest fires.
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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 20/28》The main factors driving fire prevalence & severity are land management & forestry practices. But climate industry propagandists have convinced many gullible Californians that CO2 emissions cause fires:
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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 21/28》An accelerated water cycle can be expected to increase rainfall and flooding, but the effect is too slight to be detectable. Even AR6 (WG1, Chapter 11) says no change in global flood frequency is detectable.
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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 22/28》Droughts have not changed significantly in frequency or intensity, and drought IMPACTS have diminished, because elevated CO2 makes plants more water-efficient and drought-hardy.

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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 23/28》Partially because of rising CO2 levels, the large-scale, drought-triggered famines which have plagued mankind since the dawn of history are fading from living memory.

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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 24/28》You might not appreciate what a very, VERY Big Deal that is. Are you are too young to remember when large-scale famines, were often in the news? Then consider yourself blessed!

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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 25/28》This is the first time in human history there's no threat of large scale, drought-triggered famine. Rising CO2 level isn't the only reason, but it's one of the major reasons.
Elimination of catastrophic famines is a blessing comparable to the elimination of war or disease.

@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 26/28》Mankind needs new sources of energy, because fossil fuels are not inexhaustible. But CO2 emissions are a fringe benefit of fossil fuels, not a cost, and CO2 emission reduction for its own sake is a fools' errand.
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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 27/28》Manmade climate change is modest & benign, and CO2 emissions are beneficial. The major harms from CO2 are all hypothetical, and mostly implausible. The major benefits are measured, and very large.
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@Michael63746953 @thefutureBigly @AlexEpstein @sciam @NatGeo 28/28》If we didn't have the better crop yields we get from higher 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. (Ponder THAT!)

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