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The world is getting greener. Why does no one want to know? (spectator.co.uk)
12 points by jseliger on March 25, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



The argument against this is that greening will stop at some point while temperature rise is exponential and greening is already in the models.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/21...


Is it a very inconvenient truth? if land-based plants are generally starving for CO2, would a rational evaluation support the present use of fossil fuel?

Note that at 150 ppm atmospheric CO2 level there would be massive extinction of land-based plants; CO2 levels steadily declined from 3000 ppm [1] to 280 ppm over the last 150 million years, making the holocene increase a relatively minor bump.

[1] http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/pghosh/content/Publication...




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