Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth’s Accelerating Plant Growth (1 Viewer)

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New data analysis tools and models reshape the "Climate Change" models.
The good news appears to be more plant growth and a new balancing model for CO2.
New science and data models keep reshaping our view of the planet.
The entire article can be found here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/science/carbon-dioxide-plant-growth-antarctic-ice.html

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Analyzing the ice, Dr. Campbell and his colleagues have discovered that in the past century, plants have been growing at a rate far faster than at any other time in the past 54,000 years. Writing in the journal Nature, they report that plants are converting 31 percent more carbon dioxide into organic matter than they were before the Industrial Revolution.

For decades, scientists have been trying to figure out what all the carbon dioxide we’ve been putting into the atmosphere has been doing to plants. It turns out that the best place to find an answer is where no plants can survive: the icy wastes of Antarctica.
As ice forms in Antarctica, it traps air bubbles. For thousands of years, they have preserved samples of the atmosphere. The levels of one chemical in that mix reveal the global growth of plants at any point in that history.
“It’s the whole Earth — it’s every plant,” said J. Elliott Campbell of the University of California, Merced.

In the mid-2000s, atmospheric scientists discovered a powerful new way to measure plant growth: by studying an unimaginably rare molecule called carbonyl sulfide. Note: this is really interesting to understand plant growth

“The pace of change in photosynthesis is unprecedented in the 54,000-year record,” Dr. Campbell said. While photosynthesis increased at the end of the ice age, he said, the current rate is 136 times as fast.

With all that extra carbon dioxide going into plants, there has been less in the air to contribute to global warming. The planet has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, but it might be even hotter if not for the greening of the Earth.

Dr. Berkelhammer, who was not involved in the new study, said the research would serve as a benchmark for climate projections. “It means we can build more accurate models,” he said.
 

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I thought the lawn needed mowing more often that it used to..
 

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Here is proof it isn't your imagination. (assuming like me, you were born during the Industrial Revolution LOL)
Dr. Patrick Moore was cofounder of Greenpeace and is still a major researcher in Canada (BC) forestry research.
https://fcpp.org/sites/default/files/documents/Moore - Positive Impact of Human CO2 Emissions.pdf

The attachment is a photo of trees growth in different CO2 environments.
What makes his research unique is how the evolution of Woody Plants (even grass) has drastically lowered the CO2 over the epochs.
The first article shows how remote sensing failed to capture the true bio-mass of plants until the recent invention. Now, the amazing observation is how fast the plants have reacted.
Maybe I need to get some sheep for my lawn?
 

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So the faster we burn the forest, the more forest we'll have?

Denial is not a river in Egypt.
 

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Yes, burning trees fast do in fact result in more trees.
But, that has little to do with the CO2 increasing worldwide bio life published in Nature science article.

From the Sate of California (and most others) to National Forest sites, the acknowledgement that allowing trees to burn in natural cycles (where trees burn fast) results in a much more healthy ecosystem.
In the 1920 to 1970, traditions and lobbyist funded the prevention of any fire. Eventually studies showed differently.

The worldwide plant life, including ocean, rapid response to CO2 indicates why the pollution of oceans should be a priority.

Government run Sewage is the single largest source of pollution to our oceans and seas. If the emphasis changed to protection of the "wee beasties" living in our oceans, the study shows a benefit for CO2.
 

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