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Re: German Study Shows 14% More Vegetation Over the Past 100 years from added CO2
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Cnut237
on 01/06/2021, 08:03:19 UTC
Almost everyone with even just a fraction of a science education knows Co2 is fertilizer to vegetation and that the added 100 or so ppm in our atmosphere over the past decades have been beneficial to plant growth and thus led to more greening of the continents.
Yet, some alarmists still sniff at this fact, or deny it.
I have many years of science education, thanks. 'CO2 helps plants to grow' is hardly an earth-shattering revelation. Not sure who these unnamed 'some alarmists' are, but they're more likely to be from the ranks of the climate-skeptics, rather than from the ranks of climate scientists (climate scientists being people who, you know, understand stuff).
You contradict yourself, sort of. The links in the article alone show loads of scientists who have done studies just like the OP says. So, is your education some kind of niche education? Or are you simply focusing on one side of what you learned?
You misunderstand. I'm not questioning that scientists have performed studies that demonstrate that increased CO2 helps plant life - when considered by itself, i.e. ignoring effects of climate change, such as increased temperature and changing (and more extreme) weather patterns. 'CO2 is good for plants' is basic scientific truth. It's not controversial at all. I'm simply asking who your 'some alarmists' are - presumably, as they don't understand science, they are from the climate-skeptic side?



As we are currently coming out of a grand solar minimum they will continually use the solar maximum as human related climate crisis issues. The earth gets energy from the sun and life gets energy from Earth
Not sure what your point is, sorry.

https://climate.nasa.gov/internal_resources/2266/