NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!

[surada]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

 

[westwall]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

Yes, the idiots who took over the farms couldn't grow anything, so they raised goats instead. Goats destroy everything. It's a well known problem.

Socialists somehow didn't know that.

 

[surada]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

Yes, the idiots who took over the farms couldn't grow anything, so they raised goats instead. Goats destroy everything. It's a well known problem.

Socialists somehow didn't know that.

My classmate went on to spend 30 years in Zimbabwe mostly in water and agriculture studies. He's published,

Goats are the secret to restoring pasture and grasslands.

 

[gtopa1]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Higher temperatures will always be a net positive for life on earth. Unless you tried to get rich telling everyone how they'll die from global warming, then you just look like a fucking idiot and a scammer.

Easier to live in a warm climate verses a cold.

I got tired of plowing a 600 foot driveway of snow every winter in the Southern Tier of New York State. We had accumulations of up to 8 feet per year... Moved to North Carolina.... haven't seen more than a smidgen of snow in two years....

I didn't see snow until I was 50 yo and went to Europe. It was cool!!!

Greg

 

[Sunsettommy]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

I can't agree here because it is the CLIMATE of the while region is why it is the worlds largest Desert in the first place, overgrazing practices is a distant problem.

It seems that roughly every 20,000 years, the region becomes a watered region with Trees and shrubs, people and animals all over it, then it started the slide back into the desert cycle as it did early in the current inter glacial time.

 

[Doc7505]

Just got my bill from the mowing crew ... fuck ... maybe less CO2 is a better thing? ...

ETA: Although this data confirms the theory ... it's only 20 years worth ... we can be hopeful this is a long term tread ... but we do need to be cautious about making profound claims ... we should have 50 or 75 more years worth of data in hand before ... enough time to smooth out decadal variations in weather ...

Didn't we have professors from East Anglia and NASA claming their studies of climate were propagandist lies?
Climate myths: The 'hockey stick' graph has been proven wrong | New Scientist

**********​

Creator of Global-Warming’s Infamous “Hockey Stick” Chart Loses ‘Climate-Science’ Lawsuit | by MOE Farms | MOE Farms | Medium

 

[EvilCat Breath]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Greening the Sahara is deliberate

Sahara Forest Project

-

www.saharaforestproject.com

It's being reclaimed.

 

[Orangecat]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Yeah, but the planet will end in 12 years. Lulz.

 

[Doc7505]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Greening the Sahara is deliberate

Sahara Forest Project

-

www.saharaforestproject.com

It's being reclaimed.

~~~~~~
Indeed.....
10 top ways Israel fights desertification - ISRAEL21c

**********​

Turning sand into land. Desert farms in Israel grow lush crops from sand and salty water - CSMonitor.com

 

[surada]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

I can't agree here because it is the CLIMATE of the while region is why it is the worlds largest Desert in the first place, overgrazing practices is a distant problem.

It seems that roughly every 20,000 years, the region becomes a watered region with Trees and shrubs, people and animals all over it, then it slides back into the desert cycle as it did very early in the current inter glacial time.

Read the studies.

 

[Sunsettommy]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

I can't agree here because it is the CLIMATE of the while region is why it is the worlds largest Desert in the first place, overgrazing practices is a distant problem.

It seems that roughly every 20,000 years, the region becomes a watered region with Trees and shrubs, people and animals all over it, then it slides back into the desert cycle as it did very early in the current inter glacial time.

Read the studies.

You mean these published studies you never knew existed?

Nature

Projected land photosynthesis constrained by changes in the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2

or,

NASA

Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds

or,

Wiley Online

Higher than expected CO2 fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations

or,

Nature

Thirty Years of Increasing Woody Plant Cover in Sub-Saharan Africa

or,

AMS Journals

Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle

or,

Remote Sensing

Satellite Leaf Area Index: Global Scale Analysis of the Tendencies Per Vegetation Type Over the Last 17 Years

=======

They all say the same basic thing, CO2 is the main cause of greening the world over.

 

[westwall]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

Yes, the idiots who took over the farms couldn't grow anything, so they raised goats instead. Goats destroy everything. It's a well known problem.

Socialists somehow didn't know that.

My classmate went on to spend 30 years in Zimbabwe mostly in water and agriculture studies. He's published,

Goats are the secret to restoring pasture and grasslands.

Oh? How do they do that? They eat everything down to the root. If you want a empty plot of land they are great for that. Out here they use them to clear dead brush and cheat grass to reduce wildfire.

After the goats go through you have at least five years before you even have to think about clearing the brush again.

 

[surada]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

Yes, the idiots who took over the farms couldn't grow anything, so they raised goats instead. Goats destroy everything. It's a well known problem.

Socialists somehow didn't know that.

My classmate went on to spend 30 years in Zimbabwe mostly in water and agriculture studies. He's published,

Goats are the secret to restoring pasture and grasslands.

Oh? How do they do that? They eat everything down to the root. If you want a empty plot of land they are great for that. Out here they use them to clear dead brush and cheat grass to reduce wildfire.

After the goats go through you have at least five years before you even have to think about clearing the brush again.

You move them every 30 days. Their little hooves break the soil so what rainfall they have is absorbed instead of running off and their dung is a fertilizer. Read the studies. I first read about the programs in Zimbabwe about 11 years ago. It works. They have reclaimed a lot of desert for pasture.

 

[surada]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


Comment:
Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

Added to The Global Warming Scam

Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

I can't agree here because it is the CLIMATE of the while region is why it is the worlds largest Desert in the first place, overgrazing practices is a distant problem.

It seems that roughly every 20,000 years, the region becomes a watered region with Trees and shrubs, people and animals all over it, then it slides back into the desert cycle as it did very early in the current inter glacial time.

Read the studies.

You mean these published studies you never knew existed?

Nature

Projected land photosynthesis constrained by changes in the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2

or,

NASA

Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds

or,

Wiley Online

Higher than expected CO2 fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations

or,

Nature

Thirty Years of Increasing Woody Plant Cover in Sub-Saharan Africa

or,

AMS Journals

Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle

or,

Remote Sensing

Satellite Leaf Area Index: Global Scale Analysis of the Tendencies Per Vegetation Type Over the Last 17 Years

=======

They all say the same basic thing, CO2 is the main cause of greening the world over.

• Reversing desertification with livestock in Zimbabwe ...
  
  

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[Sunsettommy]

NASA Vegetation Index:
Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km!​

NASA Vegetation Index: Globe Continues Rapid Greening Trend, Sahara Alone Shrinks 700,000 Sq Km! – Watts Up With That?
25 Feb 2021 ~~ By P. Gosselin

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.
~Snip~
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.


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Henny Penny -- OMG we’re losing the desert?!!!
The desert must be protected at all costs! Everyone, please start some tire fires, open your windows with the AC on. Just panic already!
Quick... China Joey Xi and his "Climate Change Appointees" John Kerry and Gina McCarthy are truly worried....
Undoubtedly, “if the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five years.”
Food security will be always factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity is NOT climate change.
Even though the air is cleaner in the UK, the EU, the US and Canada Climate Change moonbats want to tax our asses off and tie us to unsustainable wind and solar while heavy duty polluters, China, India, Africa, South and Central America keep their lights on using coal, natural gas and old tires. It’s hilarious
The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy — the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.

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Thanks bigly.

Reverse desertification is well documented and now in common practice. Guess you never heard of it.

NASA thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of the planet greening up, you dispute this?

I don't know.. I know reverse desertification has been successful in controlled grazing practices.

In Zimbabwe they are trying to reclaim land that was lost thanks to Mugabe and his goons running off the white farmers.

They were the initial reclaimers over two centuries ago. It took one generation for the Socialists to destroy all of that work.

You must be talking about something else. This desertification is directly related to poor grazing practices and goats.

I can't agree here because it is the CLIMATE of the while region is why it is the worlds largest Desert in the first place, overgrazing practices is a distant problem.

It seems that roughly every 20,000 years, the region becomes a watered region with Trees and shrubs, people and animals all over it, then it slides back into the desert cycle as it did very early in the current inter glacial time.

Read the studies.

You mean these published studies you never knew existed?

Nature

Projected land photosynthesis constrained by changes in the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2

or,

NASA

Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds

or,

Wiley Online

Higher than expected CO2 fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations

or,

Nature

Thirty Years of Increasing Woody Plant Cover in Sub-Saharan Africa

or,

AMS Journals

Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle

or,

Remote Sensing

Satellite Leaf Area Index: Global Scale Analysis of the Tendencies Per Vegetation Type Over the Last 17 Years

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They all say the same basic thing, CO2 is the main cause of greening the world over.

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  Reversing desertification with livestock in Zimbabwe

  Overgrazing is often seen as a major cause of desertification. But by changing the way animals are managed, the Savory Institute (SI) and Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) have restored …

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  Nov 09, 2010 · Reversing desertification with livestock in Zimbabwe Posted on 9 Nov 2010 by ILRI Communications 1 Comment Livestock are grazed in one area for a maximum of three days (C.J. Hadley/Range Magazine)
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  Mar 05, 2013 · Savory's experiments with livestock have reversed degraded dry lands in Zimbabwe, Mexico, the Horn of Africa and Argentina, he said. He added that putting the …

You have a serious difficulty reading my posts, I never once disputed the grazing effects, but YOU seem to ignore the overwhelming evidence that it is additional CO2 in the air that is the main driver of world wide greening effects.

By the way my parents owned a 28 acre ranch where we had to make sure the cattle didn't eat too much, did rotation and limiting flock size, I have personal experience in this area seeing what animals do to the grass and alfalfa mix.

If the grass is kept too short for too long, the roots would thin out and ground gets new unwanted plants take its place which was avoided on my parents ranch since we knew the roots needed recovery time to maintain the roots.

I see that you ignored this paper: Thirty Years of Increasing Woody Plant Cover in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

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I don't see how anyone can dispute higher levels of atmospheric CO2 will cause more plant growth. Commercial weed growers pump in higher concentrations of CO2 for the express purpose of increasing their yield.

In fact, I would be surprised if the IPCC doesn't have a material balance model that predicts how much CO2/carbon is stored in the atmosphere, ocean and plant life. And that those models show a direct correlation between CO2 emissions and carbon storage in all three carbon sinks. Such that as CO2 emissions increase, the storage of CO2/carbon increases in all three types of carbon sinks.

 

[Stryder50]

I don't see how anyone can dispute higher levels of atmospheric CO2 will cause more plant growth. Commercial weed growers pump in higher concentrations of CO2 for the express purpose of increasing their yield.

In fact, I would be surprised if the IPCC doesn't have a material balance model that predicts how much CO2/carbon is stored in the atmosphere, ocean and plant life. And that those models show a direct correlation between CO2 emissions and carbon storage in all three carbon sinks. Such that as CO2 emissions increase, the storage of CO2/carbon increases in all three types of carbon sinks.

Not just commercial weed/marijuana growers, but also produce-food growers, whom pioneered this process of pumping up CO2 to 2-3+ times current atmospheric levels. In fact, one of the last projects I worked on with my last employer was making fiberglass tunneling components to pump the warm, moist, CO2 heavy flue from powerplant to greenhouse. This project was one we did a few years after this paper/url article on the concept was published;

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Guest Post by Ira Glickstein.

When Lord Monckton told Congress “CO2 is plant food”, the Global Warming activists went crazy because … well, because they know he spoke an inconvenient truth. Monckton’s statement was ridiculed in many blog posts and You Tube videos, but no one directly contradicted his claim because it is clearly correct. Instead, they changed the subject to the supposed effects of rising Carbon Dioxide: too little AND too much precipitation (drought/flood), unusually high AND low temperatures (burn/freeze), and other contradictory consequences.

But, no one can deny the truth. Plants live on CO2. They are made of carbohydrates (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen). They get their carbon from the CO2 in the atmosphere. It is a fact that the best food crop yields occur when plants are grown in atmospheres that are triple or quadruple current CO2 levels. That proves current CO2 levels are way below most of the period of plant life evolution and adaptation on Earth.
This posting is about a concept that unites two technologies I predict will gain prominence in coming decades: Underground Coal Gasification and Elevated CO2 Farming, and how they may be united to provide a sustainable ENERGY and FOOD supply for the coming century.

CO2 is Plant Food (Clean Coal, Say WATT?)

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. When Lord Monckton told Congress “CO2 is plant food”, the Global Warming activists went crazy because … well, because they know he spoke an inconveni…

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[Stryder50]

This is the B.C. Canada greehhouse grower we worked with;

Houwelings | Mastery Under Glass | Welcome to Houwelings

It was this project we help build components for;
ENERGY PROJECT: DELTA, BC
Our new 8.8 megawatt heat-and-power cogeneration technology at our Camarillo Greenhouse is the first of its kind in the United States to capture traditionally wasted heat, water and C02 for use within the greenhouse. Having successfully completed the California installation, we are in the process of trying to bring the same technology to our Delta, BC facility.
• 8.7 MW of electric power
• 10.6 MW of thermal power
• CO2 for fertilization of produce
Here's a quick overview of how the system works:

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Proposal:

Houweling’s Tomatoes proposes the installation of two 4.4 MW GE Jenbacher natural gas fired, combustion engine driven, cogeneration units. Cogeneration (cogen) through combined heat and power (CHP) is the simultaneous production of electricity with the recovery and utilization of heat.

The CO2 enriched gases from the engines will be treated using selective catalytic reduction (Hanwel COdiNOX system) to reduce the NOx levels in the exhaust, meeting the requirements of the seedling crops as well as promoting healthy crop enhancement in our tomato production area. This flue gas cleaner ensures the flue gases from CHP gas engines are converted into food grade CO2, which can then be used immediately for plant and seedling fertilization. This will eliminate the need to purchase, transport and store liquid CO2. The anticipated emissions from the Co-Gen units will be less than 11.5 tonnes annually, reducing our emissions output by at least 50%. To view the complete air modeling report: click here.
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Energy project: Delta, BC | Welcome to Houweling's

www.houwelings.com

See also;

GE and Houweling’s Tomatoes Unveil the First Greenhouse Combined Heat and Power Project in the US with Carbon Dioxide Fertilization

• First U.S. Installation of GE’s J624 Two-Stage Turbocharged Gas Engine Supplies Power and Heat for Cogen Project at California Greenhouse Providing both Lower Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Increased Overall Efficiency of Well over 90 Percent
• Houweling’s CHP system Provides 8.7 Megawatts of Electrical Power, Enough to Power Nearly 8,800 Homes
• Highly Flexible Project to Support Community Environmental Challenges and Energy Needs

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GE and Houweling’s Tomatoes Unveil the First Greenhouse Combined Heat and Power Project in the US with Carbon Dioxide Fertilization

GE (NYSE: GE) and its customer Houweling’s Tomatoes, a leading North American greenhouse grower, today unveiled the first combined heat and power (CHP

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[Stryder50]

The above will work with other carbon(fossil) fueled power plants, especially after this;
Flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) is a set of technologies used to remove sulfur dioxide (SO
2) from exhaust flue gases of fossil-fuel power plants, and from the emissions of other sulfur oxide emitting processes such as waste incineration.
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Flue-gas desulfurization - Wikipedia

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My last employer was a major suppier of components for FGD use in the coal-fired power industry.

 

[skookerasbil]

lol......just more evidence of how dumb the climate crusaders are.