NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
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Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
#2Some more information on the actual amount of tree planting in china.
>China has been conducting what the United Nations has said is the world’s largest tree planting crusade, which increased its forest coverage from 8.6 per cent in 1949 to 21.7 per cent last year.
>By March this year, the total area covered by China’s artificial forests reached 69.3 million hectares, larger than the size of France, according to the State Forestry Administration.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2162083/more...
Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
#3Some more information on the actual amount of tree planting in china. >China has been conducting what the United Nations has said is the world’s largest tree planting crusade, which increased its forest coverage from 8.6 per cent in 1949 to 21.7 per cent last year. >By March this year, the total area covered by China’s artificial forests reached 69.3 million hectares, larger than the size of France, according to the…
Isn't it facing a massive desertification which this is trying to slow / stop?
Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
#4Some more information on the actual amount of tree planting in china. >China has been conducting what the United Nations has said is the world’s largest tree planting crusade, which increased its forest coverage from 8.6 per cent in 1949 to 21.7 per cent last year. >By March this year, the total area covered by China’s artificial forests reached 69.3 million hectares, larger than the size of France, according to the…
Are these commercial plantations? And what is the biodiversity in the forests?
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#5I don't like these articles for the simple fact that climate change deniers use it as "evidence" that climate change is fake
Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
#6I was speaking to someone employed as a state forester recently and we were comparing maps we had brought to the meeting. He talked about how he had access to all sorts of cool maps like infrared and even aerial maps dating back to the early 1910's and 20's. I joked that those maps must just be the tops of endless forests (this was in a northern state known for its forests) and he said the images seen were the opposite. He explained that farming back then was incredibly inefficient and farmers would clear cut as many trees as they could and till as much soil as possible on any piece of flat land they could access. The forester said that with advancements in farming and increases in efficiency, the countryside contained more forest land now than any previous point in time starting from when farmers grew crops for more than just their own family. It was a fact that I found interesting and had not considered before as I had always imagined the woods in olden times to be a larger percentage of all available land.
Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
#7I don't like these articles for the simple fact that climate change deniers use it as "evidence" that climate change is fake
What on earth does reforestation by humans have to do with climate change?
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#8I was curious haw this is actually measured, so to make it easier for others, LAI stands for "Leaf Area Index" [0], and is measured as "the one-sided green leaf area per unit ground surface area (LAI = leaf area / ground area, m2 / m2) in broadleaf canopies.[1] In conifers, three definitions for LAI have been used"
I'm a bit surprised to see the greening in the Rockies, and in North America in general given the devastation that the bark beetle has caused over the last 20 years. But it's nice to read that some trends are in the right direction.
Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
#9I don't like these articles for the simple fact that climate change deniers use it as "evidence" that climate change is fake
What on earth does reforestation by humans have to do with climate change?
Sigh, clearly nothing if you aren't one of those people the previous comment was referring to
Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
#10Some more information on the actual amount of tree planting in china. >China has been conducting what the United Nations has said is the world’s largest tree planting crusade, which increased its forest coverage from 8.6 per cent in 1949 to 21.7 per cent last year. >By March this year, the total area covered by China’s artificial forests reached 69.3 million hectares, larger than the size of France, according to the…
I recall them speaking about this a decade ago. There were huge dust storms in Beijing due to the desertification around the city. I've been out of Beijing for some time now, are the storms as bad as they used to be? Is this replanting have an impact?