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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks 1/21」I don't think David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells understands your graphs.

His book is 100% nonsense. Scientific evidence is compelling that manmade #ClimateChange is modest and benign, and CO2 emissions are highly beneficial, as Arrhenius predicted.

https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1432810945017962505

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks 2/21」None of the hypothesized major harms from manmade climate change are actually happening.

Sea-level rise has not significantly accelerated.
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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks 3/21」Hurricanes, nor'easters, and tropical cyclones have not worsened.

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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks 4/21」Tornadoes have not worsened.
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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks 5/21」Droughts have not worsened.

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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks 6/21」Nor has anything else of consequence worsened significantly due to manmade #ClimateChange. The polar bears, coral reefs & pikas are all doing fine.

Wildfires have not worsened:
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NONE of the significant predicted harms from global warming are real.

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks 7/21」There is only ONE major climate change which is actually happening, due to carbon emissions. NASA measures it, from satellites:

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Rising CO2 levels are greening the Earth.

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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks 8/21」This is NASA's video about it.

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks 9/21」That's especially beneficial for the world's most vulnerable people, who live in arid regions, like the Sahel, where agriculture is difficult, and famines used to be frequent.

Here's @NewScientist reporting the "remarkable environmental turnaround."
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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist 10/21」Note their report of "70% increase in yields of local cereals such as sorghum and millet in one province in recent years."

Those are C4 plants! It was once thought that C4 plants would benefit little from more CO2. But C4 crops are favored for their drought-hardiness…

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist 11/21」 …and elevated CO2 is especially beneficial under dry conditions, even for C4 crops.

(Most crops are C3, and they benefit even more.)

https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1296144881849643010

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist 12/21」None of the supposed major 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…

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist 13/21」 Those benefits are especially impactful in sub-Saharan Africa. Here's another article from New Scientist @NewScientist:

newscientist.com/article/dn2811…

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist 14/21」Even National Geographic @NatGeo noticed (though they've since scrubbed this inconvenient article from their website):

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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist @NatGeo 15/21」 Excerpt:

"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."

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist @NatGeo 16/21」In addition to benefiting natural ecosystems, elevated CO2 is extremely beneficial for agriculture. It makes agriculture more productive, and less vulnerable to droughts. That improves global food security, saves lives, and lowers food prices.

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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist @NatGeo 17/21」Rising CO2 levels have increased global agricultural productivity by about 20%, so far, and as CO2 levels continue to rise so does that figure.

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ourworldindata.org/crop-yields

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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist @NatGeo 18/21」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.

https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1539362537732456449

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist @NatGeo 19/21」Rising CO2 levels hare helping to make large scale famines rare, for the first time in human history.

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@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist @NatGeo 20/21」All of the information I've given you is backed up by robust scientific evidence. It is very good news, which SHOULD come as a great relief to Mr. Wallace-Wells. But it won't, because he perversely LIKES that feeling of impending doom.

https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1432810945017962505

@1Objectivist @dwallacewells @TimDugganBooks @newscientist @NatGeo 21/21」David Wallace-Wells would rather believe that he's doomed than accept that he was wrong. So he disregards the scientific evidence, and chooses to believe apocalyptic lies.

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