Your chapter on global warming is particularly provocative. You say you agree the planet is warming and that humans may be responsible for at least some of it, but that you think global warming is a good thing, since more heat and CO2 helps plants to grow better. This is not a prominent position in the mainstream debate (at least that I’ve seen). How many other scientists also hold that position? Have you received pushback for having that position? I haven’t taken a poll. But it’s simply a fact. Global warming lengthens the growing season and increases global rainfall, and increased CO2 levels accelerate plant growth. We have photos taken from orbit since 1958, and they show that plant growth rates on Earth have accelerated by 15% since that time, in near lockstep with atmospheric CO2 concentrations. And we know the relationship is causal, because the experiment has been repeated many times in the lab. So there is no question about it. We are making the Earth a more fertile planet. Yet the antihumanists wish to indict us for it.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:52:24 +0000