Global Green Up Slows Warming

Re:Global Green Up Slows Warming by DennisP on Monday November 01, 2021 @11:26AM (#29067961)

If that were the only factor, sure. But there's also drought, heat stress, invasive insects migrating to higher latitudes, and topsoil loss. Forests in the western US, for example, are not benefiting from climate change.

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Re:Global Green Up Slows Warming by citilife on Monday November 01, 2021 @11:40AM (#29068198)

Prior to humans industrializing the Sahara desert was green, 11,000 - 5,000 years ago.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-saha...

The world regularly adjusts, California has had more fires historically (and less).

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/09/1112839109

I agree things are changing, but it's not clear who or what is causing it. That's really my only thoughts on the subject. Seems CO2 has a smaller impact than what ever has caused the Sahara to turn into a desert.

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Re:Global Green Up Slows Warming by 09bjb on Monday November 01, 2021 @11:54AM (#29068437)

Here's a to-scale visual timeline of the earth's temperature change over the last 20,000 years. See if you can find anything anomalous ;)

https://xkcd.com/1732/

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Re:Global Green Up Slows Warming by useragent86 on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:18PM (#29068840)

Classic XKCD: an incredibly tall image that ends in the Hockey Stick. The winky face is what really settles it, though. QED. ;)

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