'Top CO2 facts' -- How much and how little CO2 is "plant food."
CORRECTIONS: @8:30 - the right hand bar of the chart is labelled "2008 years ago". That should just be 2008, the year of the research.
PLEASE NOTE: The smoke in the photo of the cement plant is NOT CO2 (I know everyone knows that, but some smart-ass in the comments section is going to assume I think it is, or that you think it is. Let's humor them)
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I didn't have the space in this viedo to show evidence that not all the the 'greening' is due to CO2. A lot of it is due to human activity. See here:
Hua 2017:
"Our results indicate that land use change is the dominant factor driving the long-term changes in vegetation greenness."
Greening fastest in the Arctic:
Xu et al, Nature Climate change 2013
Wrightsone a member of the Cornwall Alliance:
https://www.desmog.com/gregory-wright...
“The Positive Externalities of Carbon Dioxide”
http://www.co2science.org/education/r...
"Response of wild C4 crop progenitors to subambient CO2 highlights a possible role in the origin of agriculture" -- JENNIFER CUNNIFF 2008
List of sources for similar table:
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_...
Description of plant growth data tables:
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_...
Heat stress:
https://eos.com/blog/heat-stress-in-p...
Heat stress:
https://eos.com/blog/heat-stress-in-p....
Heat stress at night:
"Field Infrastructure for Phenomics of High Night Air Temperature Stress Tolerance of Rice" -- Quiñones at al 2022
"Lack of phosphorus limiting factor in tropical and sub-tropical growth."
-- Ellsworth 2022
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Agricultural land increased from 38 to 48 million sq kms:
"Novel Materials for Urban Farming" -- October 2021
DOI:10.1002/adma.202105009
Jerejeva 2014 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Jerejeva reconstruction -- https://psmsl.org/products/reconstruc...
Holocene reconstruction from:
http://www.climateplus.info/tag/holoc...
Greenland aggregate temperatures from Zeke Hausfather:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck...
Past temperature:
https://i0.wp.com/gergs.net/wp-conten...
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/pa...
Temp graph from NASA
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/wor...
