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@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 1/12》Crop yields rose in part because of CO2 fertilization.

Plus, the catastrophic, drought-triggered famines which plagued mankind for all of human history are disappearing from living memory, in part because elevated CO2 helps mitigate drought impacts.
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@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 2/12》Rising CO2 levels improve both crop yields and drought resistance. That's helping make famines rare for the 1st time in history.

If you're so young you don't understand how important that is, count yourself blessed! Famine used to be a scourge comparable to war & disease.

@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 3/12》Ending famine is a VERY Big Deal, comparable to ending war and disease. Compare:

● 1918 flu pandemic killed 2% of world population.

● WWII killed 2.7% of world population.

● The global drought & famine of 1876-78 killed 3.7% of world population.

@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 4/12》When I was a child, horrific famines were often in the news, in places like Bangladesh. But Bangladesh and India now have food surpluses, every year. Rising CO2 level is one of the reasons for that.

Food gluts are a MUCH better problem than famines!
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@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 5/12》Here's what manmade climate changes is REALLY doing. This is what climate activists are campaigning against:

“’Before, there was not a single scorpion, not a single blade of grass… Now you have people grazing their camel…"
tinyurl.com/NatGeo2009

@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 6/12》And this:

sealevel.info/Pearce2002_Afr…

@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 7/12》And this:
nasa.gov/feature/goddar…

Here's NASA's video about it:

@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 8/12》And this:
● ourworldindata.org/grapher/cereal…
● ourworldindata.org/famines
● sealevel.info/OurWorldInData…

@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 9/12》The benefits of more CO2 are large & well-measured. The supposed harms are merely hypothetical, and mostly implausible.

CO2 levels were far above the current level for >98% of Earth's history, without causing "runaway" warming or acidic oceans.
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@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 10/12》None of the supposed major harms predicted to result from manmade climate change are actually happening.
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@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 11/12》The scientific evidence compelling that manmade climate change is modest and benign, CO2 emissions are highly beneficial, and the social cost of carbon is negative.

sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?…
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https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1432810945017962505

@BradyGWilson @PaulHBeckwith 12/12》
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