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Date: April 26, 2019 at 19:05:37
From: Logan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: NASA declares carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth |
URL: CO2 is called a “greenhouse gas.” It turns the planet into a lush, plant-filled greenhouse that’s warmer, wetter and more abundant across all plant life. Why don’t Democrats and Leftists want Earth to be more green? |
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NASA declares carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth…
The Green New Deal is a “Death Cult”
In direct contradiction to the scare stories about
carbon dioxide being relentlessly pushed by the
climate change alarmists, a scientific study
published in Nature Climate Change and highlighted by
NASA reveals that rising carbon dioxide levels are
having a tremendously positive impact on the re-
greening of planet Earth over the last three decades,
with some regions experiencing over a 50% increase in
plant life.
The study, entitled, “Greening of the Earth and its
drivers,” used satellite data to track and map the
expansion of green plant growth across the globe from
1982 – 2015. Published in 2016, this study found that
rising atmospheric carbon dioxide causes
“fertilization” of plant life, resulting in a
remarkable acceleration of increased “greening”
across every Earth continent. As the study abstract
explains:
We show a persistent and widespread increase of
growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25% to
50% of the global vegetated area… Factorial
simulations with multiple global ecosystem models
suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70% of
the observed greening trend…
In other words, the planet is getting greener, and we
have rising CO2 levels to thank for it, since rising
CO2 accounts for about 70% of the increase in planet-
wide greening, according to scientists. The more CO2
we release into the atmosphere, the more nutrients
are available for plants, and the more rapidly the
Earth is re-greened.
The following compilation map shows which land masses
have experienced expanded greening since 1982. As the
legend explains, the light green areas represent a
25% increase in green plants, and the dark green
areas represent a 50% or greater increase:
Natural News readers may note this is exactly what
we’ve been reporting for over a decade. It’s basic
science, of course, since plants use carbon dioxide
to thrive. Higher CO2 means a greener Earth, since
CO2 is the single most important molecule for
sustaining plant life across the globe. It is beyond
astonishing that the entire climate change cult
denies the basic science of botany and
photosynthesis.
NASA confirms the findings and even publishes a video
touting the increase in global greening due to rising
CO2
To the shock of many climate change alarmists, even
NASA scientists confirmed that carbon dioxide is
“greening” the planet. As stated on the NASA.gov
website in an article titled, “Carbon Dioxide
Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds“:
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has
shown significant greening over the last 35 years
largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon
dioxide, according to a new study published in the
journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.
An international team of 32 authors from 24
institutions in eight countries led the effort, which
involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced
Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help
determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf
cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The
greening represents an increase in leaves on plants
and trees equivalent in area to two times the
continental United States.
NASA explains almost exactly what I’ve been
explaining for the last several years: That carbon
dioxide is a necessary component of photosynthesis,
the biochemical process by which plants produce
metabolic energy. Via NASA:
Green leaves use energy from sunlight through
photosynthesis to chemically combine carbon dioxide
drawn in from the air with water and nutrients tapped
from the ground to produce sugars, which are the main
source of food, fiber and fuel for life on Earth.
Studies have shown that increased concentrations of
carbon dioxide increase photosynthesis, spurring
plant growth.
Results showed that carbon dioxide fertilization
explains 70 percent of the greening effect, said co-
author Ranga Myneni, a professor in the Department of
Earth and Environment at Boston University.
NASA even released a YouTube video that almost
exactly mirrors the message Natural News has been
advocating for years. The video is entitled, “Rising
CO2 levels greening Earth”:
Why the Green New Deal would KILL the greening of the
Earth
In direct contradiction to the real science on the
greening benefits of carbon dioxide, Democrats
routinely and mindlessly claim that carbon dioxide is
a poisonous “pollutant” that will destroy the world.
The anti-knowledge of lunatic Democrats demonstrates
the extreme dangers of those who are scientifically
illiterate yet spout “science” as their justification
for demanding radical interventions in atmospheric
chemistry.
In truth, rising levels of carbon dioxide will cause
the following beneficial effects on Earth:
Reforestation due to Earth moving toward a warmer,
wetter, more greenhouse-like environment
Acceleration of food production among food crops
An increase in the biodiversity of rainforests
Increased rainfall across Earth’s continents
The transformation of deserts into usable plains for
grazing and agriculture
The acceleration of the greening of the planet, which
is already far greener than it was 50 years ago
There are virtually no Democrats who recognize that
carbon dioxide is the “miracle molecule” for plant
life. “Green New Deal” proponents like Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez — who is scientifically and
economically illiterate — think that carbon dioxide
must be eliminated in order to save the planet. In
fact, she warns that Earth only has 12 years to go
before all life ceases to exist unless humans stop
burning fossil fuels.
Not surprisingly, she has it all wrong: It’s the
burning of fossil fuels that’s releasing beneficial
CO2 into the atmosphere, causing the global greening
that NASA has already confirmed (see above). If
humans stop burning fossil fuels, the result would
decrease atmospheric CO2, resulting in plants
starving to death from lack of CO2.
This would, of course, lead to the mass global die-
off of trees, grasslands, food crops and rainforests.
The “Green New Deal,” in other words, would actually
result in the mass killing of plant life across the
entire planet. If the world were to follow the
demands of Ocasio-Cortez, the world’s ecosystems
would collapse, resulting in mass death of plants,
animals and humans.
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Date: April 28, 2019 at 18:56:05
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NASA declares carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth |
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Well ya know NASA would be a part of the equation they are so
trustworthy and all out in space in the darkness.
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Date: April 29, 2019 at 11:13:27
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: and so they want us to forget THIS PLANET is dying? (NT) |
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Date: April 29, 2019 at 15:17:27
From: Logan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: and so they want us to forget THIS PLANET is dying? (NT) |
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It's not so much dying as being murdered.
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Date: April 30, 2019 at 10:59:54
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: and so they want us to forget THIS PLANET is being murdered (NT) |
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Date: April 30, 2019 at 16:05:43
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ya, it's not even included in this worlds naming of it's 7 "week" days |
URL: https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-names-of-the-days |
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...or in the list of visible planets and even in astronomy I found it a
challenge to find what constellation the earth was in at first, no
one mentioned Earth placement but two web sites which are gone
now.
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Date: April 29, 2019 at 11:18:45
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: and to go to Mars where it's super duper dead they say, no oxygen |
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and cold as hell...
not the kind of place to raise a kid.
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Date: April 29, 2019 at 11:12:38
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: NASA can no longer get off ground and "take us to the planets" LOL (NT) |
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Date: April 27, 2019 at 10:14:06
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NASA declares carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth |
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Caution: Natural news article (which means it probably
has very little basis in actual science)..CT
Fact check anything from this source.
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Date: April 29, 2019 at 15:12:06
From: Logan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NASA declares carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth |
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Warns one of the most biased people on this site and
the most fearful of Natural News who seems not to read
the articles but just condemn all out of her closed
mindedness and fear of facts that could contradict her
agenda.
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Date: April 27, 2019 at 22:36:29
From: Teresa N cal , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NASA declares carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth |
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Unlike me to read Logan's post. This one I did.
https://www.popsci.com/earth-getting-greener
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Date: April 29, 2019 at 15:37:37
From: Logan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NASA declares carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth |
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"Unlike me to read Logan's post."
Thanks for admitting your narrow minded, fear driven,
ways.
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Date: April 28, 2019 at 19:00:52
From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NASA declares carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth |
URL: Even carbon-hungry plants can't save us from climate change |
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Interesting, but then it ends with ...
"It’s unknown how long the Earth will continue to green, but there are signs
it won’t last. In fact, a recent study (LINKED) found that as the planet warms
and its soil dry, plants will be starved of water, leading to a drop-off in plant
growth."
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Date: April 27, 2019 at 22:32:53
From: Teresa N Cal, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NASA declares carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth |
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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-
dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
From 2016
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