A new climate alarmist narrative is emerging as the globalist anti-carbon agenda continues to unravel.
As Slay News has been reporting, globalists have been increasingly warning that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is allegedly causing global warming.
However, the agenda relies on people forgetting what high school biology classes teach about photosynthesis.
As we know, plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air to create oxygen.
Because of this process, the world is “greening” and deserts are shrinking almost everywhere you look.
All due, it seems, to a natural rise in carbon “plant food” dioxide in addition to the small annual 4% portion contributed by humans burning hydrocarbons.
This greening is inconvenient to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) collectivist “Net Zero” agenda, however.
Along with rising numbers of polar bears, the cyclical recovery in Arctic sea ice, and the recent record growth of coral on the Great Barrier Reef, the “climate emergency” narrative is coming unstuck.
Naturally, there’s little mention of any of this in the corporate media.
One recent article from the left-wing Guardian claims that “Desertification is turning the Earth barren.”
The newspaper insists that the expansion of drylands is leaving entire countries “facing famine.”
However, the fearmongering story simply doesn’t align with reality.
A recent article in Yale Environment 360 reports the opposite.
The report states that vegetation is growing faster, rather than shriveling and dying, and deserts are retreating.
In fact, many scientists now think that this process will continue to accelerate into the future.
According to the Yale article, CO2 is “fast-tracking” photosynthesis in plants.
By allowing them to use scarce water more efficiently, the CO2-rich air fertilizes vegetation growth in even some of the driest places, observes Yale.
For some time there has been “growing evidence” of global greening in all biomes, not just drylands, evidence that we can note has been ignored by the promoters of “Net Zero.”
A Carbon Brief “explainer” claimed that desertification has been described as the greatest environmental challenge of our time “and climate change is making it worse”.
Carbon Brief is funded by green activist billionaires including Sir Christopher Hohn, a past funder for recently jailed climate radicalist Roger Hallam and Extinction Rebellion.
Its desert climate hysteria, like that of the Guardian, is therefore to be expected.
Interestingly, Yale Environment 360, which is part of the Yale University School of the Environment, also receives heavy direct and indirect financial support from activist groups including ClimateWorks along with the Hewlett and Ford Foundations.
The article is significant since it represents a “mainstream” breakthrough in discussing global greening which has been obvious for some time in specialist scientific circles.
Perhaps it is not surprising that the Yale article tries to rain a little on the greening parade with a dose of climate gloom.
Greening created by agricultural irrigation of fields can “obliterate arid-land ecosystems.”
But this surely is human-caused and has nothing to do with a changing climate.
“Save the deserts” may not be a popular environmental message, “but arid eco-systems matter,” continues Yale.
Of course, there will be many who point out that if a few scorpions have to upsticks to make way for the better nutrition of millions of African children, this is a small price to pay.
The article highlights much of the recent scientific work on global greening has been downplayed.
Greening is more often than not ignored by messengers of the “Net Zero” narrative.
Ground-breaking work in 2016 saw a team of 33 scientists from eight countries study NASA satellite images.
They found that, since 1980, between a quarter and a half of the planet’s vegetated areas had shown an increase in their leaf area index (LAI), a standard measure of the abundance of plant life.
Work at this time suggested a 14% increase in vegetation.
A 2021 study at the University of California concluded that there had been a 12% increase in photosynthesis, with CO2 fertilization again the primary cause.
A 2020 assessment from scientists at the Woodwell Climate Research Centre found that greening was “much more extensive than previously acknowledged” and more than three times greater than desertification.
Yale noted findings that the greening encompassed 41% of the world’s drylands, from India to the African Sahel and northern China to south-eastern Australia.
Chinese scientists have also been on the case.
Last year, researchers at Lanzhou University found a “global divergence” between aridity and leaf area in drylands during the past three decades.
This “decoupling” was said to be due to the effect of CO2.
In February, another group of Chinese scientists found that over the last two decades, about 55% of global land mass revealed an “accelerated rate” of vegetation growth.
“Global greening is an indisputable fact,” they state.
They produced four datasets that showed greening accelerating since 2000 in 55.8% of the globe.
Faster growth in India and the European plains was said to be the most obvious.
Healthy growth can also be observed in the Amazon region, equatorial East Africa, southern coastal Australia, and Ireland.
None of these findings should be a great surprise.
CO2 levels have been much higher in the past going back 600 million years.
Plants thrive at levels three times higher than current atmospheric CO2 and the near denudation amounts of the last few million years.
During the last glacial period up to around 12,000 years ago, levels of atmospheric CO2 dropped to such dangerously low levels that plant – and human – life was severely threatened.
Even with the small recovery we have seen in the recent past, plants grow larger and utilize existing water resources much more efficiently.
This recovery of CO2 levels in the atmosphere holds out hope for higher food resources in many parts of the world that suffer from periodic famines.
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