🌎 GLOBAL WARMING

[Wild74]

Global greening is happening faster than climate change, and it’s a good thing

Anthony Watts / 19 hours ago July 5, 2019

by Matt Ridley, writing in Die Weltwoche

REJOICE IN THE LUSH GLOBAL GREENING CO2 is plant food. The greening of the earth means more food for animals and greater crop yields for humans. Why is no one talking about it?

Click to enlarge. Green areas are the areas in which the vegetation has increased since 1982, massively in some areas. Infografic: Boston University

Amid all the talk of an imminent planetary catastrophe caused by emissions of carbon dioxide, another fact is often ignored: global greening is happening faster than climate change. The amount of vegetation growing on the earth has been increasing every year for at least 30 years. The evidence comes from the growth rate of plants and from satellite data.

In 2016 a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries that analysed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14% increase in green vegetation over 30 years. The study attributed 70% of this increase to the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The lead author on the study, Zaichun Zhu of Beijing University, says this is equivalent to adding a new continent of green vegetation twice the size of the mainland United States.

Global greening has affected all ecosystems – from arctic tundra to coral reefs to plankton to tropical rain forests – but shows up most strongly in arid places like the Sahel region of Africa, where desertification has largely now reversed. This is because plants lose less water in the process of absorbing carbon dioxide if the concentration of carbon dioxide is higher. Ecosystems and farms will be less water-stressed at the end of this century than they are today during periods of low rainfall.

There should have been no surprise about this news. Thousands of experiments have been conducted over many years in which levels of CO2 had been increased over crops or wild ecosystems and boosted their growth. The owners of commercial greenhouses usually pump CO2 into the air to speed up the growth of plants. CO2 is plant food.

This greening is good news. It means more food for insects and deer, for elephants and mice, for fish and whales. It means higher yields for farmers; indeed, the effect has probably added about $3 trillion to farm incomes over the last 30 years. So less land is needed to feed the human population and more can be spared for wildlife instead.

Yet this never gets mentioned. In their desperation to keep the fearmongering on track the activists who make a living off the climate change scare do their best to ignore this inconvenient truth. When they cannot avoid the subject, they say that greening is a temporary phenomenon that will reverse in the latter part of this century. The evidence for this claim comes from a few models fed with extreme assumptions, so it cannot be trusted.

This biological phenomenon can also help to explain the coming and going of ice ages. It has always been a puzzle that ice ages grow gradually colder for tens of thousands of years, then suddenly warmer again in the space of a few thousand years, at which point the huge ice caps of Eurasia and North America collapse and the world enters a warmer interlude, such as the one we have been enjoying for 10,000 years.

Attempts to explain this cyclical pattern have mostly failed so far. Carbon dioxide levels track the change, but these rise after the world starts to warm and fall after the world starts to cool, so they are not the cause. Changes in the shape of the earth’s orbit play a role, with ice sheets collapsing when the northern summers are especially warm, but only some of these so-called “great summers” result in deglaciation.

Recent ice cores from the Antarctic appear to have fingered the culprit at last: it’s all about plants. During ice ages, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere steadily drops, because colder oceans absorb more of the gas. Eventually it reaches such a low level – about 0.018% at the peak of the last ice age – that plants struggle to grow at all, especially in dry areas or at high altitudes. As a result gigantic dust storms blanket the entire planet, reaching even Antarctica, where the amount of dust in the ice spikes dramatically upward. These dust storms blacken the northern ice sheets in particular, making them highly vulnerable to rapid melting when the next great summer arrives. The ice age was a horrible time to be alive even in the tropics: cold, dry, dusty and far less plant life than today.

As Svante Arrhenius, the Swede who first measured the greenhouse effect, said:

“By the influence of the increasing percentage of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, we may hope to enjoy ages with more equable and better climates.”

Enjoy the lush greenery of the current world and enjoy the fact that green vegetation is changing faster than global average temperatures.

[Wild74]

Here’s The Next Obama-Era Reg Trump’s Energy Department Is Preparing To Nix

charles the moderator / 2 days ago July 4, 2019

From The Daily Caller

Chris White Tech Reporter

July 03, 2019 6:00 PM ET

The Department of Energy announced Tuesday a rule-making process that could ding an Obama-era environmental regulation slowing down dishwashers.

DOE decided to grant a petition to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) to allow a dishwasher product class with a cycle time for the normal cycle of less than one hour. Former President Barack Obama enacted a rule in 2016 making the average dishwasher cycle more than two hours — Americans enjoyed a cycle time of one hour decades ago.

The Obama-era rule was part of the DOE’s plan at the time to impose 23 different energy efficiency regulations for household appliances by 2018. Obama issued more energy standards for household appliances than any previous administration, all in the name of fighting global warming.

President Barack Obama reacts with a gesture on stage as he listens to a speech by Hillary Clinton at the Charlotte Convention Center. Shutterstock

“CEI’s petition, for dishwashers that benefit consumers by cleaning fast and well, was supported by an avalanche of comments from individual Americans who were fed up with today’s slow, lousy models,” CEI attorney Devin Watkins said in a statement. (RELATED: Americans Are Complaining That DOE Regs Are Ruining Their New Dishwashers)

He added: “This situation is the result of government so-called ‘efficiency’ rules that, over the years, have more than doubled the time that dishwashers take to operate.”

Americans demanded the DOE reconfigure rules governing newer model dishwashers.

More than 2,300 comments were filed with the DOE in 2018 asking federal regulators allow faster dishwashers before the comment period closed June of that year, according to government data. The agency fielded requests from the public on the issue after receiving a petition in March from CEI, a free-market group based in Washington, D.C.

A rule making washing machines more efficient required “manufacturers” to “increase the cycle time” to compensate for the regulation’s inability to effectively clean dishes, DOE acknowledged in 2016. A few of the comments suggested the dishwashers are effectively useless and require more than one cycle to get dishes fully clean.

“Until we went to my parents house, who have a much older dishwasher than us, we had no clue how terrible of a job our newer dishwasher was doing compared to theirs,” one person wrote the DOE in 2018. “We are left doing hand washing a lot at home because of how poorly the top rack cleans dishes. What a waste of water.”

Another commenter argued the new dishwashers waste water and are too expensive.

“On our second dishwasher and still dishes come out smelly and not fully clean with long run times,” another person wrote. “Spent $900 on a dishwasher that is far worse than my first one bought in the early nineties that cost $200. Aren’t we supposed to be improving?”

The DOE has not responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

[CarthDawg77]

14 minutes ago, Greezychef said:

Bought a brand new Samsung 3 years ago. Takes 2 hours and 50 minutes to do a full wash.  I just wash by hand now.  Takes 10 minutes.   

Heck, I bet that old gal at the Lukin WalMart could probably Lick them dishes clean in under 30 minutes....

[CarthDawg77]

1 minute ago, Greezychef said:

Shes a minor.  Careful. 

What?!?!?! I’m talking about DISHES!   🤨

[CarthDawg77]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/environmental-protesters-glue-themselves-to-tunnels-under-us-capitol

That would be a good time to beat a little sense into these morons...🤨

[TheNameIsDalton]

Trump bad!!!  Miners bad!!!  Dems good!!!

[TheNameIsDalton]

Talking to congress is like talking to a brick wall. 

[Monte1076]

A lot of people BBQ, and use coal. Especially for grilling and smoking meat/pork/poultry.

If coal is "banned" as a fuel to use (since it would be classified a fossil fuel pollutant), how would that affect BBQ?

[osup116]

pecan and mesquite

At least until all the trees are cut down

 

 

[DannyZuco]

35 minutes ago, osup116 said:

pecan and mesquite

At least until all the trees are cut down

 

 

Which then allows them to argue for more climate change, because we need trees to clean the atmosphere. Maybe they should plant more trees for us to cut down to BBQ with. LOL 

[Hagar]

You want to bring the all the races together in Texas, you try to outlaw BBQ’ing, on coals or open flame/smoke.  You’ll have whites, blacks, and browns standing side by side, ready to fight.  You don’t mess with Texas, and you dam sure don’t mess with our BBQ.

[CarthDawg77]

Barbecue is always gonna go on at My place.

[TheNameIsDalton]

If you want to be a true environmentalist while BBQing, just use propane. 

[CarthDawg77]

32 minutes ago, TheNameIsDalton said:

If you want to be a true environmentalist while BBQing, just use propane. 

Just cook in the oven, then; but it won’t be BBQ.

[HankTheCowDog]

If you cook it in the oven, you are using coal in a way, as a substantial amount of electricity is generated by burning coal.  But what you use to BBQ is charcoal, something very different.

If it was meant as a joke, sorry I missed it but this hits close to home since i work at a coal mine..

And Dalton, Hank Hill would be proud if you.

[TheNameIsDalton]

2 hours ago, HankTheCowDog said:

If you cook it in the oven, you are using coal in a way, as a substantial amount of electricity is generated by burning coal.  But what you use to BBQ is charcoal, something very different.

If it was meant as a joke, sorry I missed it but this hits close to home since i work at a coal mine..

And Dalton, Hank Hill would be proud if you.

 

You caught me.  Propane and propane accessories are my thing.  

[DannyZuco]

2 minutes ago, TheNameIsDalton said:

 

You caught me.  Propane and propane accessories are my thing.  

Isn't propane considered a clean natural gas that is helpful to the environment? Wouldn't it be cleaner than those darn coal generating electrical plants. LOL 

[CarthDawg77]

3 hours ago, HankTheCowDog said:

If you cook it in the oven, you are using coal in a way, as a substantial amount of electricity is generated by burning coal.  But what you use to BBQ is charcoal, something very different.

If it was meant as a joke, sorry I missed it but this hits close to home since i work at a coal mine..

And Dalton, Hank Hill would be proud if you.

You don’t cook over lignite; that’s a different type of “coal” from charcoal, isn’t it? 

[TheNameIsDalton]

1 hour ago, DannyZuco said:

Isn't propane considered a clean natural gas that is helpful to the environment? Wouldn't it be cleaner than those darn coal generating electrical plants. LOL 

 

As a matter of fact it is. 

[Wild74]

I use propane but charcoal will always be legal in most state, a few of the wacko liberal states maybe not

[TheNameIsDalton]

16 minutes ago, Wild74 said:

I use propane but charcoal will always be legal in most state, a few of the wacko liberal states maybe not

Well Berkeley outlawed natural gas....so maybe they will use charcoal.  Lol

[KirtFalcon]

I use a combination of propane, charcoal and wood depending on what I am cooking and whether I am slow smoking or grilling ....

When I was in Alaska back in the 80s, the locals made their own charcoal out of charred wood chunks, mostly alder wood .... it was better than 90% pf the stuff you buy down here commercially  ... I have thought about trying it out of post oak or red oak  ... 

[CarthDawg77]

4 hours ago, TheNameIsDalton said:

Well Berkeley outlawed natural gas....so maybe they will use charcoal.  Lol

Weed, would more accurate...🗣

[Hagar]

So what are the answers to this MMGW (Man Made Global Warming)  problem.  That’s to AOC, we know we have only 11.5 more years, so what can we do?   Just one of many predictions, most of which, the dates have come and gone (Miami underwater by 1999).

Relax my fellow Forum Friends, salvation is at hand.   Among all the dire predictions, comes an idea to solve everything.   Not one of the absurd AOC/Al Gore solutions, but an easy fix.   The President of Brazil has said that to save the Environment people need to poop only every other day.  Voila, end of problem.   With predictions/solutions like this, and AOC/Gore’s, no wonder many of us look at this whole situation as a scam, fraud or flagrant stupidity.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49304358

 

[Hagar]

Ever try to have a discussion with a liberal on MMGW?   Invariably you’re going to hear, “the scientist say”.   Forget the fact that the scientist may be bought - the scientist say.   Or some bought and others incompetent - the scientist say.   I guess they think these scientist are all brilliant and have the highest integrity.   That said, read this.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/09/05/cannibalism-professor-says-eating-human-flesh-will-save-planet-from-climate-change/