Accidental Great Global Greening Thanks to Risen CO2 Emissions
It must now be seen as the greatest blunder in human history. And it was all done on purpose. No public relations campaign can change that. Yes, the world is still a bit warmer.
CO₂ is still a bit higher. But NASA satellites have revealed the recent rise in carbon dioxide has sparked the greatest expansion of green leaf area ‘in recorded history’. The entire human story has been about our dogged survival in a harsh, dangerous world, thanks mainly to sheer luck. Our species is thriving in today’s warmer Holocene interglacial cycle, which has lasted 11,700 years.
This covers the entire rise of all human civilisation, every single empire, every invention and everything that makes us modern, from razor blades to spaceships. The observable data throughout geological history suggests that today’s cooler temperatures lie mostly within natural variability. The natural world invented the miracles of multicellular life and DNA on its own.
It doesn’t need human intervention. The Earth will run its course despite our interference. However, many are unaware that we still are living in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, beginning 33.9 million years ago when permanent ice sheets formed on Antarctica. Ice ages may be rare, but we are in one, whether we like it or not. Earth has seen just five major ice ages in its long history – the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo, and today’s Late Cenozoic Ice Age.
Today’s global average temperature is estimated at 15°C, but this is not hot in geological terms. Our modern era sits deep within a major cold trough. It is up to 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average range of 18–26°C. It was the Industrial Revolution though, that kicked off the modern world, beginning around 1750. And the discovery of coal, oil and gas created the most successful period in human history. We have medical miracles and the astonishing technology to prove it.
CO₂ levels over 250 years from 290 ppm to 426 ppm have created a massive spreading green canopy. Agriculture has exploded beyond anything ever seen before. It has not caused a global disaster. And Net Zero, by the way, has never been fully explained – other than swapping promissory notes at annual summits worth trillions of dollars.
There is every likelihood it will not change a thing. It’s nothing more than a throw of the dice. Yet the error strewn ‘transition’ to wind-solar is expected to cost $275 trillion – equal to 2.5 times global GDP. This could have built up to 27,500 nuclear power stations worldwide, ending any doubts about pure energy.
Global temperatures have risen by around 1.4°C since the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This came after the end of the 500-year Little Ice Age in Europe, the coldest spell in 10,000 years. Cold usually brings famine, misery and an early death. Until the past few decades, most people only learned about CO₂ in biology classes at school.
It is where we discovered this trace gas is the building block of complex life, the engine of photosynthesis and the oxygen we breathe. The CO₂ miracle isn’t taking a bank holiday.
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