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Inhibitive Effects of Recent Exceeding Air Temperature Optima of Vegetation Productivity and Increasing Water Limitation on Photosynthesis Reversed Global Greening

2023-10-10 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences Journal

Global terrestrial vegetation dynamics have been rapidly altered by climate change. A widespread vegetation greenness over a large part of the planet from the 1980s to early this century has been reported, whereas weakening of CO2 fertilization effects and increasing climate extremes and the adverse impact of increasing rate of warming and severity of drought on vegetation growth were also reported.

Tagged under: CO2 | Agriculture

Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries

2023-09-05 (or before) in The Lancet

The decoupling rates achieved in high-income countries are inadequate for meeting the climate and equity commitments of the Paris Agreement and cannot legitimately be considered green. If green is to be consistent with the Paris Agreement, then high-income countries have not achieved green growth, and are very unlikely to be able to achieve it in the future. To achieve Paris-compliant emission reductions, high-income countries will need to pursue post-growth demand-reduction strategies, reorienting the economy towards sufficiency, equity, and human wellbeing, while also accelerating technological change and efficiency improvemen...

Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement | GDP | CO2 | Economic Growth

The Greenhouse Gas Demo

2023-06-09 (or before) in YouTube

This discusses a short, but very effective and dramatic demo to show the effect on temperature of increased levels of carbon dioxide.

Tagged under: CO2 | Science

Welcome to Carbon Atlas | Global Carbon Atlas

2019-12-05 (or before) in Global Carbon Atlas

Tagged under: Science | Global Warming | CO2

Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming

2019-10-25 (or before) in Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examined

Direct observations find that CO2 is rising sharply due to human activity. Satellite and surface measurements find less energy is escaping to space at CO2 absorption wavelengths. Ocean and surface temperature measurements find the planet continues to accumulate heat. This gives a line of empirical evidence that human CO2 emissions are causing global warming.

Tagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | Science | CO2 | Climate Change

Atmospheric carbon levels are leaping. We can't afford more years like this

2019-06-11 in The Guardian

Each year of high emissions adds to the stock of carbon in the air, bringing us closer to catastrophe

Tagged under: Global Warming | CO2 | Greenhouse Gases

The Truth About Greenhouse Gases | William Happer

2019-03-03 (or before) in First Things | America's Most Influential Journal of Religion & Public Life

The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances . . . .

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change (Published 2018)

2018-08-01 by in The New York Times

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.