Is There Global Cooling?
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I am not a scientist and do not pretend to be. But, I have been watching the issue of climate change now for two decades and have found it is not what many say it is. Here are a collection of articles, sources, and information. Use it if you like. Hopefully it will encourage you to seek your own truth since this is one of the great issues of our time.
Geoffrey Pohanka
Corn yields USA record high link
UK deforesting the USA to combat climate change link
Earth greening, Sahara link
Europe burning their forests in the race for green energy link
Growing degree days calculator link
“In the last two decades, an average of 310,000 km² of additional leaf and needle area – roughly the size of Poland or Germany – has been created every year,”Max Planck Institute. The researchers describe that plants have absorbed 30% more CO2 since 1900.Today the plant world absorbs about 30% of the anthropogenic CO2 annually, the oceans another 24%
US corn production, growing record link
impact of climate change, USA, cooling, warming on agriculture production link
Global tree canopy map link
Over the past 60 years the global population has doubled, grain production has quadrupled link
Global forests grew by 9% link
Global greening India China, global NASA leaf area link
Global greening, twice the size of the USA link
Global tree canopy expanding 7% since 1982 link
Global tree canopy cover increased by 2.24 million square kilometers (865,000 square miles) between 1982 and 2016, reports a new study in Nature
Tree canopy in Europe, including European Russia, has increased by 35 percent—the greatest gain among all continents.
The researchers' satellite data also confirms the effectiveness of China's large-scale reforestation and afforestation programs, leading to a tree canopy gain of 34 percent in that country.
The three countries with the largest area of net tree cover loss during 1982–2016 are all located in South America: Brazil (?385,000 km2, ?8%), Argentina (?113,000 km2, ?25%) and Paraguay (?79,000 km2, ?34%)," report the researchers.
Declining forest cover in the western United States, meanwhile, has been offset by increased tree canopy cover in the eastern part of the country. The result is that overall U.S. tree cover increased by 15 percent in the study period.
Globe has dramatically more trees than first believed link
The Earth has trillions more trees than first thought link
3 trillion trees, denser forests than thought link
There are eight times more trees on Earth than thought link
CO2 and plant nutrition According to Craig Idso (2013), the relatively tiny amounts of speculated nutrient reductions are overwhelmed by an average increase of 46% of crop biomass owing to increased CO2 fertilization effect. Please note that protein losses are most likely due to lower levels of nitrogen available and that all of these alleged reductions can be easily resolved by continuing or increasing the practice of that radical new agricultural technology: fertilization.
Global wheat production to set record link
Brazil record corn and cotton production link
Trees use water more efficiently when CO2 levels are high link
Earth's oldest trees growing more quickly because of climate change. link
US corn production rising link
Palm oil catastrophe NYT link
Forests extended to Arctic Ocean 5,000 years ago link
Red Spruce growth increase 106% since 1980 from increase in CO2 link
Rising CO2 enhances wheat grain production in acidic soils link
population and food supply relationship chart link
One way of measuring such progress is to look at forests. Forests are still being cut down in poor countries, but they are expanding in rich ones. It turns out that when a country reaches a certain level of income, around $5,000 per person per year, it starts reforesting. This is because people become wealthy enough to stop relying on wood fires for cooking and to use electricity or gas instead.
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