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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

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I don't like these articles for the simple fact that climate change deniers use it as "evidence" that climate change is fake

> I don't like these articles for the simple fact that climate change

In all likelihood the human race will be killed by computers (hacked, robotics, software errors, hardware failures, and so on and so on.. pick one), and Not climate change. Just sayin.

Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

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Some 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?

The Wikipedia article about the green great wall[0], has some interesting information about that. I was blown away when I first found out about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Pro...

Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

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from the actual article https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/human-activity-in-china-an...

> China’s outsized contribution to the global greening trend comes in large part (42%) from programs to conserve and expand forests. These were developed in an effort to reduce the effects of soil erosion, air pollution and climate change. Another 32% there – and 82% of the greening seen in India – comes from intensive cultivation of food crops.

Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

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I 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?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Pro...

Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

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I 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?

"You see, Earth is getting greener! Things are getting better! Maybe we don't need to cut down on fossil fuels and wasteful consumption after all!"

Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

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post #5

I 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?

Trees convert the evil gas into the brown solid stuff. When there is less evil gas the world wont get as hot.

Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

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Some 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 was in rural Yunnan earlier this year. Drove for multiple hours on the highway. Everywhere was entire mountains covered in rows of a single species of trees.

I'm not sure what the long term effects of such a widespread forest monoculture with no plant competition will result in.

Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

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Some 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 am impressed that China is making this effort, I wish we would do the same, but with an aim of building communities of plants and trees, not a monoculture.

Re: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

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post #5

I don't like these articles for the simple fact that climate change deniers use it as "evidence" that climate change is fake

> I don't like these articles for the simple fact that climate change In all likelihood the human race will be killed by computers (hacked, robotics, software errors, hardware failures, and so on and so on.. pick one), and Not climate change. Just sayin.

Feels like you're assigning probabilities out of thin air. For example, not sure how hardware failures would wipe out the entire human race, or even cause the collapse of modern civilization across the planet - like every single piece of critical hardware in all major cities would somehow have to fail in a limited space of time. It would require controlled electricity (for lack of a better term) to spontaneously disappear - the laws of physics would have to change, or maybe every human to contract a virus that makes us allergic to being near large amounts of electricity. Not to mention there was nearly modern civilization before electronics were invented that we could fall back to.

Sounds like a cool premise for a novel, but something fanciful to the extreme.

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