“Where regions become warmer or wetter this may allow for increased agricultural output – while others may be harmful,” Eric Worrall reports: A new government report is creating shock in…
Category: Positive effects of CO2
Another benefit of climate change and increased CO2 – trees continue to grow at a faster rate
WUWT readers may recall this WUWT story from 2011: The Earth’s biosphere is booming, data suggests that CO2 is the cause, part 2 Now there is even more evidence. From From…
Sierra Nevada freshwater runoff could drop 26 percent by 2100, tree growth due to improved climate blamed
From the University of California – Irvine and the “Environmentalists are never happy” department comes this amusing quandary. The cause? Increased high-elevation plant growth fueled by climate warming Irvine, Calif.…
A benefit to 'climate change' – less dead zones in the ocean
From the University of Washington Ocean’s most oxygen-deprived zones to shrink under climate change As the complex story of climate change unfolds, many of the endings are grim. But there…
Another benefit of global warming – increased forage plants
From the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo An increase in temperature by 2050 may be advantageous to the growth of forage plants With a 2°C…
Carbon dioxide won't cause famines
In fact, more atmospheric CO2 will spur crop growth – if we let it Guest essay by Dennis T. Avery Historian Geoffrey Parker is the author of Global Crisis: War,…
Nature fights poison with carbon dioxide
‘Evil’ carbon dioxide saves plants from another poison. Consider that the next time you eat a piece of fruit. From Saint Mary’s University Taming a poison: Saving plants from cyanide…
What the IPCC left out: the benefits of global warming
It needs catastrophe scenarios to sell their ideas By Rupert Darwall (writing at NRO) With the clock ticking toward December 2015 and the last chance to conclude a global treaty…
Report: Benefits outweight costs of carbon 50 to 1
Landmark Report Calculates Societal Benefits of Fossil Energy to be at Least 50 Times Greater than Perceived Costs of Carbon Benefits outweigh supposed costs by range of 50-1 to 500-1
The good side of climate change
Why climate change is good for the world Don’t panic! The scientific consensus is that warmer temperatures do more good than harm By Matt Ridley: Climate change has done more…
More settled science: Climate change/warming speeds up tree life cycles instead of causing migration
From Duke University and the “I was sure those tree rings were linear indicators” department, comes this news: Climate Change May Speed Up Forests’ Life Cycles DURHAM, N.C. – Many…
Good news! Elevated CO2 may extend interglacial, prevent next ice age
Reader “Markx” writes in Tips and Notes on a paper I hadn’t noticed before (because it was published before WUWT was born). Of course it only works if CO2 has…
Global Warming to Endanger Breakfast by 2080!!!
Guest Post by David Middleton First it was wheat and now it’s coffee. What’s next? Bacon & eggs? This is nothing but alarmist nonsense… Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens…
CO2 Is Greening The Planet: African Savannahs Getting a Makeover to Forests
I’ve covered this before, such as when NASA posted satellite data showing that the biosphere is booming thanks to CO2 fertilization. This new study from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany…
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