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Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening
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2020 Feb 28, 5:49pm 520 views 3 comments
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Onvacation
2020 Feb 28, 5:58pm
Onvacation
2020 Feb 28, 5:58pm
The world has been both an ice ball and ice free with forests in the arctic circle. Which one would you rather live on? Co2 is not poison, it's fertilizer essential to life on planet earth
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georgeliberte
2020 Feb 29, 10:31am
georgeliberte
2020 Feb 29, 10:31am
"Greening was found to mitigate global warming through enhanced land carbon uptake and evaporative cooling."
HOW DARE IT!
HOW DARE IT!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-019-0001-x
Key points
Long-term satellite records reveal a significant global greening of vegetated areas since the 1980s, which recent data suggest has continued past 2010.
Pronounced greening is observed in China and India due to afforestation and agricultural intensification.
Global vegetation models suggest that CO2 fertilization is the main driver of global vegetation greening.
Warming is the major cause of greening in boreal and Arctic biomes, but has negative effects on greening in the tropics.
Greening was found to mitigate global warming through enhanced land carbon uptake and evaporative cooling, but might also lead to decreased albedo that could potentially cause local warming.