As i have been posting, farmers need to integrate trees with their cropping strategies and their technology. The benefits are all too obvious, not least from the movement of deep nutrients back onto the surface and the additional release of nitrogen from the root systems.
They have begun doing this in the Sahel and i expect the forest to march back into the Sahara and ultimately reforest the entire Sahara with perhaps a little help, but really not that much.
The Sahara was grassland at least five thousand years ago. Proper husbandry and it can be a vigorous forestland as well. and well watered through a working hydraulic cycle.
Rising CO2 Producing 'Miracle' Re-greening Effects Across the Planet
Climate change myth pushers are scientifically illiterate propagandists who have brainwashed themselves against all scientific reality to somehow believe that carbon dioxide is a poison to plants.
In truth, it’s the “greening” molecule for the planet, as I’ve repeatedly explained in multiple climate videos, podcasts and climate articles.
Now, new science published in Nature demonstrates that global tree cover
is rapidly expanding across the planet as CO2 concentrations in the
atmosphere rise to healthier, pro-tree levels that support forest growth
and health.
Yes, you read that correctly: Forestation coverage of planet
Earth is expanding, not shrinking as we’re all told by the lying
globalist media on a daily basis. (The same dishonest media that claimed
New York City would now be under water from an apocalypse of melting
ice caps… go figure.)
“We show that — contrary to the prevailing view that
forest area has declined globally5 — tree cover has increased by 2.24
million km2 (+7.1% relative to the 1982 level),” reports science study
authors in this study entitled “Global land change from 1982 to 2016.”
The study was primarily funded by NASA’s Making Earth System Data
Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs). It also enjoyed
supporting funds from the World Resources Institute’s Global Restoration
Initiative and the NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Program.
“Here we analyse 35 years’ worth of satellite data and provide a
comprehensive record of global land-change dynamics during the period
1982–2016,” the authors explain. “Global bare ground cover has decreased
by 1.16 million km2 (?3.1%), most notably in agricultural regions in
Asia.”
See the study abstract yourself at this link.
Carbon dioxide is bringing planet Earth back to life by supporting forests, plants and food crops
The study documents the scientific reality that carbon dioxide supports
the expansion of forests across the planet. That makes perfect sense,
since CO2 is the “oxygen” of plant life.
Without CO2, nearly all plant life on the planet would die, quickly
followed by the total collapse of the food web, animal ecosystems and
human civilization.
Currently, CO2 is at around 408 ppm in the atmosphere, a number that’s
dangerously low for plants (and forests), causing mass death of trees,
food crops and even grasses. Climate change lunatics lie to the public
and try to claim that CO2 levels have never been this high.
Even NASA joins the conspiracy by selectively choosing data to show the
public, distorting the true history of CO2 on planet Earth. In reality,
CO2 levels have been over ten times higher in the past (over 4,000 ppm).
Today’s CO2 levels are near the lowest they’ve ever been in the history
of the planet, and as they rise, plant life across Earth is bring slowly
restored.
The left-wing anti-science media is now banning all content that questions the fake science of climate change, hoping to censor any real debate on the subject while pushing their own quack science CO2 “poison” lunacy.
[People] who keep calling for eliminating all CO2 are, in effect, demanding their own mass suicide and the extinction of most life on planet Earth.
It’s the kind of suicidal, idiotic position that can only be pursued by scientifically illiterate, arrogant liberal mobs who know nothing about reality but are fixated on a delusional fairy tale pushed by Al Gore, an anti-science lunatic who profits from “carbon phobia.”
The study published in Nature was authored by Xiao-Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman, Peter V. Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Eric F. Vermote & John R. Townshend. Citation: Nature 560, pages639–643 (2018)
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