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here is another one. Funny how all stories from the climate change taliban are negative
The earth is greener and farms are more productive because of the carbon dioxide emissions linked to global warming, an author of the original UN climate treaty has claimed.
The planet can support more people because CO2 has boosted crop yields, the scientist Indur Goklany has claimed in a controversial paper published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which is sceptical of climate change.
The report, Carbon Dioxide: The Good News, which has not been peer reviewed, proposes that the impact of rising carbon dioxide concentrations “is currently net beneficial for both humanity and the biosphere generally”.
It says that the benefits are “real, whereas the costs of warming are uncertain”.
Professor Myles Allen, head of the climate dynamics group at the University of Oxford, said there would be some benefits in some regions in the early stages of global warming. “But I worry about the Stalinist overtones of adding up the losses and benefits and deciding humanity as a whole will benefit from global warming,” he told The Sunday Times. “Drowning Bangladeshis might not be reassured by higher crop yields in Ukraine.”
Mr Goklany says in his paper: “Halting the increase in carbon dioxide concentrations abruptly would deprive people and the planet of the benefits of carbon dioxide much sooner than they would reduce any costs of warming.
“Models used to influence policy on climate change have overestimated the rate of warming, underestimated direct benefits of carbon dioxide, overestimated the harms from climate change and underestimated human capacity to adapt so as to capture the benefits while reducing the harms.”
The report says that “climate sensitive indicators of human and environmental well-being that carbon dioxide affects directly, such as crop yields, food production, prevalence of hunger, access to cleaner water and biological productivity, and those that it affects indirectly, such as living standards and life expectancies, have improved virtually everywhere.
“In most areas they have never been higher, nor do they show any sustained signs of reversing.”
Cue the ad hominen rubbishing from the Taliban
so it is all good news.
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