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On the Benefits of CO2

By Randal Utech -- April 11, 2023

Some interesting facts on CO2. The trace gas of life is very beneficial. CO2 is greening the earth and feeding the hungry. CO2 has not been proven to ‘drive’ climate change except as conveyed by the models which remain erroneous and incomplete. We are near the lowest level of CO2 over earth history. The secondary feedback heating effect of CO2 is limited by the IR logarithmic forcing law and is nearly saturated at current levels. The earth never had runaway heating even at 10x-20x current levels of CO2. Interesting that most plants evolved at levels averaging near 1200 ppm or roughly 3x current levels.

Desert greening

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/news-releases/2013/deserts-greening-from-rising-co2

Plant fertilizer higher than expected

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.14950

CO2 reducing plant water needs

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1604581113

CO2 sink

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.16866

Greening observed by NASA

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

NASA – greening mitigates warming

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates-surface-warming