xbacksideslider said:
Increased CO2 greens the planet
The fly in the ointment here is that CO2 also traps heat, rather than it just radiating back into space each night.
(THATS WHY ITS CALLED A GREENHOUSE GAS !!)
And increasing energy in the atmosphere, seas, landmass means more EXTREME CLIMATE.
More heatwaves, more blizzards, more droughts, more floods, bigger hurricanes and cylones.
More volatile climate all around. On average still the same though, its just the extremes are more extreme.
Some ag experiments here, under big glasshouses etc have injected in CO2, and found that with increasing temps and without more rainfall to compensate, yields of many common crops have fallen by 50% or more.
So the ag scientists here are scurrying to breed crop varieties that can better handle droughts, high temps, high rainfall, high mildew conditions, etc etc.
Forestry folks are looking for varieties that can handle more heat, the cool climate ones are seeing dieback, bigtime.
Cold water fish along the coast here are all retreating south, find cooler waters, the ocean is heating up....
Banana farmers hereabouts have had their crop wiped out by cyclones 3 years running.
They are saying if this is what its going to be like all the time, banana farming will be dead.
Local orange farmers said their orange crop this year was all sunburnt, unless it was middle of tree - whoever heard of that before ?
Big changes, fast changes, like nothing ever seen before, not much time for things to adapt... ?
