Settled science: New paper challenges climate science consensus on winds & rainfall — Published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
The paper finds that forests themselves are a significant factor in causing rainfall which “opens up a lot of potential to improve rainfall in dry areas through reforestation.” If true, the atmospheric model the scientists have developed “could revolutionize the way we understand local climates, and their vulnerability, with many major implications,” according to the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), which participated in the new study.
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Global Tipping Point Not Backed by Science, Experts Argue
This opposes recent efforts to define ‘planetary tipping points’ ‒ critical levels of biodiversity loss or land-use change that would have global effect ‒ with important implications for science and policy-makers.
“This is good news because it says that we might avoid the doom-and-gloom scenario of abrupt, irreversible change,” says Professor Barry Brook,
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Claim: Biofuels wiping out grasslands: ‘America’s prairies are shrinking. Spurred on by rush for biofuels, farmers are digging up grasslands in N. Plains to plant crops atquickest pace since 1930s’
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Eat junk food — and save the planet! Study: ‘High-nutritional-quality diets had significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions than did low-nutritional-quality diets’
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USDA report predicts all manner of end-times for crops and forests — Feds: ‘Climate change will absolutely devastate American agriculture and forests’
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New paper finds Amazon resilient to climate change due to CO2 fertilization — Published in the journal Nature
‘The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from burning fossil fuels blamed for causing climate change, was likely to exceed damaging effects of rising temperatures this century such as drought’
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Warmist Prof. Peter Cox of U. of Exeter does U-turn on Global warming & Amazon rainforest claims ‘I am no longer so worried about a catastrophic die-back due to CO2-induced climate change’
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Study: ‘Worms are accelerating climate change’ — ‘Result in a net increase in greenhouse gases’
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New paper predicts CO2 fertilization will greatly improve plant productivity by 40-60% — Paper published in Biogeosciences
The study derives ‘a probabilistic prediction for globally averaged strength of CO2 fertilization in nature, for period 1850 to 2000 AD, implicitly net of other limiting factors such as nutrient availability” & predicts, ‘the increase in gross primary productivity (GPP) in response to a doubling of CO2 from pre-industrial values is very likely (90% confidence) to exceed 20%, with a most likely value of 40–60%’
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New paper says Amazon trees will tolerate IPCC projected temperature in 2100 — New paper published in Ecology & Evolution
The paper adds to several other peer-reviewed publications showing that alarmist claims of ecosystem collapse or drying up of the Amazon amount to fear mongering, falsehoods, and exaggerations.
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