By P Gosselin on 24. February 2021
Looking at NASA’s Vegetation Index data, the news is good: the globe has greened 10% so far this century.
That’s good news because we know this ultimately means greater crop production area and forest expansion. Ironically, what many “experts claim to be a huge problem (CO2) is in fact one of the major reasons behind the greening.
Zoe Phin has a post on this topic at her site which really warrants attention.
Global Vegetation Index surges 10% in 20 years
Zoe downloaded all of NASA’s available 16-day-increment vegetation data from 2000 to 2021. Here’s her result:
NASA’s Vegetation Index has risen from 0.0936 to 0.1029, which is a 9.94% increase. Chart by Zoe Phin
“10% global greening in 20 years! We are incredibly fortunate!” Zoe comments on the results. “I just wish everyone felt that way. But you know not everyone does. To the extent that humans enhance global greening is precisely what social parasites want to tax and regulate. No good deed goes unpunished.”
Been greening 30 years!
This is not unexpected news to cool-headed climate realists. In August, 2019, we reported on a German study showing how the globe had been greening for 3 decades. Based on satellite imagery, German Wissenschaft reported, “Vegetation on earth has been expanding for decades, satellite data show.”
Sahara shrinking, becoming greener
Also not long ago a study by Venter et al (2018) found the Sahara desert had shrunk by 8% over the previous three decades. This is profound because the Sahara covers a vast area of some 9.2 million square kilometers. Eight percent means more than 700,000 square kilometers more area that’s become green – an area almost as big as Germany and France combined.
So in terms of vegetation, the planet probably hasn’t had it this nice in about 1000 years.
70% driven by CO2
And there’s more good news if you think CO2 is a problem as a greenhouse gas (it isn’t).
Last August, NTZ weekly contributor Kenneth Richard cited a study by Haverd et al, 2020), and wrote that “about 70% of the Earth’s post-1980s vegetative greening trend has been driven by CO2 fertilization” and that this greening will offset 17 years (equivalent) of the Earth’s anthropogenic CO2 emissions by 2100.
There are many more studies underpinning the good news of the greening planet – thanks in large part to mankind. It’s not as bad as the crybaby activists and media depict it to be. Not even close.
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Please forgive me if I offend anyone with my thoughts here. In my opinion the entire climate system they want to impose has nothing to do with facts, we have most definitely reached the point with technology that they can extend life we will never see or hear of this technology because we are not part of the “club” and has anyone noticed who profited off of this pandemic? The rich are getting richer and if they can now live forever these people most definitely look upon us as parasites who are using their precious resources. They would like to put an end to this because they know eventually the resources will dry up. Has anyone looked at their climate goals of 0 carbon emissions by 2030? Has anyone considered how they might reach this goal? I think of the Scarface line “I see a lot innocent people have to die now” has anyone thought of the famous Bill Gates speech about how they can get carbon emissions down through vaccines? Has anyone thought about how this might relate to where we are now and how Bill Gates is very much at the center on this vaccine for Covid-19? If you add it all up I think we are witnessing something very sinister that is about to happen in the next 9 years. Take care and remember Jesus is coming back very soon.
How dare you!!!! – Gerta the psycho to Mother Earth.
if we reduce CO2 emissions, the world will starve.
This is a hook the left didn’t see coming. The more CO2 the more green growth taking advantage of it. I expect we will see the left wanting to destroy the green vegatation now because it’s making their climate change hysteria look bad. The Earth perfectly balances itself. That’s why it’s been around for 6 billion years. All those years without the whacko leftists to look after it. How “on Earth” did it survive? Haha
I’m still trying to figure out why a “greener” planet is a BAD thing.
When the globalist bankers stop
loaning out money for seaside properties, that’s when I’ll start to consider global warming as real. Everyone knows damned well that the banks wouldn’t risk a single worthless red cent to secure property that even has a hint of literally being underwater in 10 years.