I just read that researchers (eg. government funded wonks) have discovered that plant growth and CO2 usage is far less than estimated.

Gee...wouldn't have anything to do with the release of that phony Paris Accord, would it?

I agree with you, but on a longer range than you indicate. Solar and wind do not provide any discernible amount of power yet.

Wind, per Matt Ridley:
"To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world's energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. Despite the regressive subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving the wine cellars of grand estates), despite tearing rural communities apart, killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests, killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the average turbine - despite all this, the total energy generated each day by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide."

"Solar provides about a third of one per cent of world energy."

Eventually, nuclear, solar power, and innovative power sources will surpass fossil fuel, but we have enough of the last-mentioned for the next couple hundred years - plenty of time to innovate.

Jan

The Sahara is reported to be greening as well.

Jan

we have tree farms and love trees, so Thank You! -- j
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I suppose we should all be concerned over the "tragedy" of forest starting to reclaim the Negev desert due to the rise in carbon dioxide. It would be curious to see if the Sahara is experiencing a similar forest creep.

While we're at it, let's plant a host of fruit and nut trees. In addition to the aesthetics, there's the nutrition,

Heck, back during the Jurassic when my buddies packed up to run down humongous giants like Diplodocus, grasslands and jungles were pumping out CO2 like crazy.
Not to mention all the gases a ton of smoking volcanoes belched out!
Despite extinction--that taking an asteroid strike--I saw a paleontologist on TV call dinos the most successful critters ever for all the millions of years we survived.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=d...

Did this big guy have an in general prob with high CO2 levels and smoking volcanoes?
I think~NOT!

Logic is the inconvenient truth.

broskjold22 you are exactly correct in your observation.

That's the asaninity of the global warming argument in a nutshell. They won't even look at the history of the planet, where only a few tens of thousands of years ago (before the last major Ice Age), the planet was awash in significantly higher levels of CO2 and O2 than today, and the planet's plant life flourished.

Now one thing we do have to be aware of are the algae blooms in the oceans. While I like plants, I also like my healthy animal ecosystems. Algae blooms threaten millions of square miles of habitat and fishing.

Without intervention from crazy governments, burning of fossil fuels will inevitably decrease due to higher costs. The efficiency of burning pretty much has reached its maximum level. Things like solar and wind energy, as well as nuclear will eventually take over, if something even better is allowed to flourish free of government influences.

Still searching for a live christmas tree (complete with root ball) to decorate and plant after the holidays. Probably settle for a Norfolk Pine and a few wreaths made from throw aways at HD. Have to build that dome before the pine gets too big though ;^)

Yes. We always hear about the need to reduce burning stuff, but I wonder if controlling forest fires or reducing deforestation could put a dent in the problem. It seems plausible since CO2 levels drop during the northern hemisphere's summer b/c most of the land masses are there. So there's nothing crazy about it. Hug a tree, indeed.