Fascinating evidence has been published that shows the recent increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has caused some cooling over large areas of the planet, and significant and widespread increases in vegetation. This plant boost, which has alleviated famine and hunger and helped send global food production soaring in recent decades, was found to have led to a global cooling trend of –0.018°C a decade. There are significant margins of error, up and down, but this is said to have offset ~4.6% of global warming. However, in the case of India and China it has offset ~39.4% and ~19% respectively.
In a paper published last month, 11 Chinese climate scientists note that the Earth has experienced “widespread vegetation greening” since the 1980s due to CO2 fertilisation effects. Such greening could mitigate global warming “by triggering negative biochemical feedback to the climate system”. The darker green vegetation absorbs more of the sun’s heat, claim the scientists, while processes involving water evaporation or heat convection between the surface and the atmosphere also depress local temperatures.
The Earth has undoubtedly greened over the last 40 years as atmospheric levels of CO2 have started a slow recovery from what some scientists claim is a period of dangerous collapse. The current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is around 419 parts per million and is near an all-time low in the paleo record. In the past, levels have been up to 20 times higher but below about 180 ppm, plant and human life would start to die. It is generally accepted that there has been a recent increase in global vegetation of around 14%. In 2016, a major international scientific study involving 32 scientists noted there had been a “persistent and widespread increase” in growing season greening over 25-50% of the global vegetated area. Some scientist are relaxed about rising levels of CO2 as a consequence. Dr. Roy Spencer, the former senior scientist at NASA, notes that, “though CO2 is necessary for life on Earth to exist, there is precious little of it in Earth’s atmosphere”.
The Chinese study estimated temperature response to higher levels of vegetation between 2001-2018 by examining satellite temperature recordings and records of leaf area data. Other matters considered included local climate conditions, plant types and annual and seasonal factors. An estimated signal was then compared with historical temperatures records “to evaluate the potential climate benefits of greening at global and regional scales”.
The above graph shows areas of the world where greening “can significantly mitigate climate change”. It is notable that these areas include Europe, China, India and southern Brazil. These areas are also forecast to dominate global greening after the 21st century. India and China are said to be the top two countries where substantial greening “induces strong cooling effects” of –0.14°C and –0.059°C a decade respectively. As I noted above, this leads to cooling of surface warming of ~39.4% and ~19% respectively. It is only an anecdotal observation, of course, but these two countries are rapidly expanding their local consumption of fossil fuel energy, and there will be many who will be tempted to make a cooling link.
On a wider level, this paper is an important contribution to the debate over climate change and the contention that human-caused CO2 is the main control knob for any recent warming in the atmosphere. Over 600 million years, CO2 has been gradually drawn out of the atmosphere and sequestered in the Earth’s crust. The problem with the hypothesis of anthropogenic warming – other than lack of any actual proof – is that it fails to provide much correlation between temperatures and CO2 levels in the current, historical or paleo past. Arguments that the gas becomes ‘saturated’ at certain levels and its warming properties reduce on a logarithmic scale can provide a more convincing explanation to fit past observations.
Away from the ‘settled’ science narrative – a political fiction designed to stifle debate and promote Net Zero – scientists research the many influences that cause the climate to change. It is highly improbable that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere will cause a climate ‘breakdown’ because it has never done so in the past. The atmosphere is a chaotic, non-linear place and numerous influences including heat exchange and ocean currents play a very important part. The climate also appears to have self-regulating checks and balances – atmospheric CO2 boosting plant growth, which in turn cools the local surface environment, being just one of many.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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“Jesus, you’ve lost your bloody minds!”
Lol!
Credit to Gove for having him on. I wonder if he expected his former party to get slaughtered as they did by JBP.
Yet MG was one of the politicians fawning over the Swedish child.
I just hope these assaults from Musk, Peterson and Trump hit their target and destroy nut zero before they destroy every forest in this dear Country.
I am fully behind what he said about Johnson’s rather silly wife. In my view the decline of conservatism started when she appeared on his arm.
I’m sure the UN & WEF had more of an influence, even if she is good in the sack and makes good bacon & eggs in the morning.
It was the green, woke nonsense she whispered in his ear that did the damage.
And Johnson’s awful father, Stanley.
And in particular when the police were called out to a disturbance at their home. She didn’t make a statement. What price did he, and the rest of us pay? IMHO she ruined his career.
…don’t let Johnson off the hook though: he was a feckless, lazy clown well before she came along.
‘I’m just so appalled by what the Conservatives did when they were in power: the immigration mess and the Net Zero mess. I don’t see how you could fail more spectacularly than to fail on those two fronts simultaneously.’
And yet the Conservatives managed to fail even more spectacularly…..
‘It’s a respiratory disease, respiratory virus. It spreads very, very easily, obviously. It seems likely that many more people have had it than had been identified.’
‘We learned that in both LA County and Santa Clara County, there were 40 or 50 infections per case identified. 40 or 50 per case identified.’
‘evidence of the disease already, you know the disease is very, very infectious, that’s a strategy that cannot work. At that point what folks should have realized, including folks like Fauci and the CDC should have realized, is that a strategy to stop the disease from spreading down to zero was not possible.’
https://www.hoover.org/research/what-happened-dr-jay-bhattacharya-19-months-covid-1
‘Current estimates of the total cost of government Covid-19 measures range from about £310 billion to £410 billion. This is the equivalent of about £4,600 to £6,100 per person in the UK.’
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9309/
‘I’ll speak bluntly: they allowed Boris Johnson’s obsession with his young wife to decimate the U.K. economy.’
Frocking hell!
‘In WhatsApp messages shared between Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, former No 10 communications director Lee Cain, and Johnson’s former chief advisor Dominic Cummings, the three seemed in agreement that Carrie was the true power in government.’
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23853875.simon-case-carrie-johnson-real-person-charge-no-10/
A period of several years of silence from the Conservatives would be most welcome.
I wonder if the Conservative Party are a dead party still walking – and they will never get back into power. I expect that Kemi Badenoch needs to break the wet Conservative pattern by relaunching a new conservative part – the New Conservatives, or the Real Conservatives but she would be obliged to dump all the wet dead wood. I rather fancy Reform have got there first.
Rubbish! The Nigerian Birth Tourist with her Bloated Sense of Entitlement should be the first to be “dumped” as “wet dead wood”.
Not only that ….. WEF wet dead wood.
Absolutely spot on, you are!
She can start with herself and any that call themselves the ‘centre’ because these are the useful idiots for the Globalists who run the show. It’s a big club, and you’re not invited. George Carlin.
Another new party to split the vote letting Labour back in at the next election?
People did try and warn but Fauci conspired to silence & sensor. Like Greta, Carrie was just another stooge down the food chain, a useful idiot that may be good in bed.
I hope Gove felt acute embarrassment listening to JP eviscerate the Conservatives and their failures over Net Zero. Gove fawned over Greta like a pubescent schoolboy and he still appears to be completely unaware of any alternative scientific opinions on climate science. The only thing wrong with this interview is that JP still hasn’t woken up to the globalist covid plandemic narrative.
I think he’s pretty sceptical with regard to “Covid” though I don’t know what he has said specifically about the whys and whereforea.
During the plandemic he seemed pretty on board with the untested genetically altering ‘waxines’ which surprised me. I remember he got his shots. Whether he railed against lockdown I’m not sure.
I remember he got “vaccinated” though I don’t think he was very enthusiastic about it
Maybe because he knew that his shot was a placebo…
Desmond Swayne was a let down regarding the jab because he was very vocal about the Lockdowns. Some woman was vaccine injured and he said she “took it for the team”….I’m happy outside that team mate!
I wonder what he really thinks, now. Apart from Bridgen, no British MP has denounced the “vaccines” – and look what happened to him.
Exactly. I’m not saying that people can’t change but Gove was indeed publicly fawning over Greta and enthusiastically supported the vaccination program and lockdowns. As an absolute minimum I feel there is something slimy about this guy; I don’t think he’s got the authenticity that I would expect the editor of the Spectator to have.
He was late to the show on that one, but he did start to notice in 2021 on his YT videos. “get the F out of my life”.
Oh dear, Dr Peterson. If Boris had merely decimated the UK economy we wouldn’t be in such a pickle. A bit of etymology required, I think, to get the full enormity (in the true meaning of the word) of what he and his successors have done.
Yes, the UK economy is the least of it. People forget that when Boris was Foreign Secretary under Treason May, he delighted the Bangladeshi Muslims when he made an official visit to Bangladesh and declared that Britain needed MORE Bangladeshi immigrants, NOT LESS!
Indeed
The economy can be rebuilt over time, but once our culture, society, civilisation has gone, it is lost. It’s that culture that enabled the economy.
People and cultures are not interchangeable. Thomas Sowell provides a very clear example of the problem with equity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-4th0R7Q70
Sowell is a legend. The left hate him, all the more probably because he’s a black man.
The Treacherous Tories deserve more than a slap for it. And for the Covid Tyranny. And for 14 years of failure.
They deserve to be obliterated.
Of which Gove was part of!
It is brutal but it has nothing to do with nature worship. None of these creatures has ever struck me as being a nature worshipper. Quite the contrary and they affirm this with their own utterances in terms of their lauding of the rise of systems and machines as means of control. Nature worship has its problems but these guys are far darker than that.
A reminder:
Greta Thunberg
“This ongoing irresponsible behaviour will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind. You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to.
The UK, was very special due to its “mind-blowing historical carbon debt, (a reference to the country’s record as the birthplace of industrialisation). But this was also, because its claims of world-leading progress on cutting emissions are partly the result of “creative accounting” and are belied by the government’s plans for more high-emissions projects.
The UK’s active current support of new exploitation of fossil fuels, like for example the UK shale gas fracking industry, the expansion of its North Sea oil and gas fields, the expansion of airports, as well as the planning permission for a brand new coalmine, is beyond absurd,”
Response from Michael Gove:
“Your voice – still, calm and clear – is like the voice of our conscience, When I listened to you, I felt great admiration, but also responsibility and guilt. I am of your parents’ generation, and I recognise that we haven’t done nearly enough to address climate change and the broader environmental crisis that we helped to create.”
One Aspie talking to another and both hopelessly lost. You shouldn’t worry too much about this agenda. Humanity won’t be around in an organised form for much longer. The vaccinated represent the power bloc. They are by their own admissions weaker by the day. Who knows next week it might be turbo cancer. Then you go quiet and you waste away and you die shortly thereafter.
Gove was very much a key player in the years of Tory failure. As others have said, fawning over the Swedish doom-goblin was unforgettable.
A scotch egg is a substantial meal.
Excellent by Jordan Peterson. It’s obvious really, the Tories have created a catastrophe for the country. Kemi seems reluctant to admit the truth and is incapable of articulating a new set of policies
She wasn’t appointed to admit the truth.