Plants suck half the CO2 out of the air around them before lunchtime each day
A paper that is nearly 60 years old shows us just how intrinsically important CO2 is to life. An acre of corn is a living machine drawing CO2 from the air around it. In windless conditions, CO2...
View ArticleCO2 emissions in last 50 years made us $3.5 Trillion wealthier
Millions of people are alive today because the net emissions of carbon dioxide have increased. These extra emissions have provided essential fertilization for crops around the world. Craig Idso has...
View ArticleIncreasing CO2 threatens human nutrition (From the Annals of Hype)
Disaster Disaster! Driving a car in 2014 could one day cause 2 billion people to suffer from zinc and iron deficiencies leaving them anaemic and prone to infection, and causing a loss of 63 million...
View ArticlePeak Wheat! One quarter of wheat production will be lost to extreme climate...
According to a new study released by Nature Climate Change we are, remarkably, at the very peak of conditions for wheat growth worldwide — and it’s all downhill from here. (What are the odds?) The last...
View ArticleWelcome to the CO2 disaster — 4 billion tons more plants, more greenery
During the recent warmest decades on record, Earth suffered under the highest CO2 levels of the last 800,000 years. Life responded to this devastating situation by — flourishing. There are now some 4...
View ArticleBurn oil, feed the world, grow plants, save forests, get richer, live longer....
It’s time to stop pussy footing around. We need higher levels of CO2. It is morally and ethically irresponsible to be silent while millions starve, biodiversity is under threat, and people are dying...
View ArticleDeath, disease, coming in 2050 says model of model
“Half a million deaths by 2050!” The Lancet study in a nutshell: Take climate models that don’t work, and guesstimate what might happen to agriculture because of the climate we probably won’t get....
View Article18 million square kilometers more greenery due to “carbon pollution” that the...
What kind of pollution do you want to feed your plants? The carbon kind. Yet again, a satellite study of leaf area shows that the world is greener than it was in 1982. There are more plants mostly...
View ArticleRecord hottest year means record bumper wheat crop, opposite of crop models
Last year there were warnings from crop modelers in Nature that heat kills wheat and yields were going to fall in the “near future”, if temperatures rose. In fact global warming was “already slowing...
View ArticleIf world warmed — crops could grow another 1,200 km further North
Climate change might bring more food as it expands into the arctic. In a big surprise, scientists found that agriculture works best in places without much snow and ice. Burn oil and feed the world Only...
View ArticleBurn oil so we can eat more chocolate
The fake scare of the season — “climate change is impacting chocolate production”. Chocolate is produced from the beans that grow on cocoa trees. These plants can only grow in a fairly narrow range of...
View ArticleIn a warming world we may get overun by cheap soy and corn
New research shows that the impending climate disaster puts the world in danger of growing too much corn and soy. People won’t know what starving is! H/t to CO2Science Qiao et al discovered that when...
View ArticleNine o’clock horror: Climate change causes shape shifting animals
A postmodern coal-powered Cockatoo is larger, meaner and nastier than any bird photographed in the paleolithic. | Photo by Photoholgic on Unsplash It’s a new horror to scare the kiddies: Animals...
View ArticleThe ecologist who says we *need* huge herds of cows and sheep to stop...
By Jo Nova Can cows shrink deserts? Allan Savoury is a farmer from Zimbabwe who used to believe that livestock were destroying the land. He still believes the CO2 scary narrative, but even despite all...
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