metmike: And here is the United Nations doing its thing to convince us that increasing beneficial CO2 (in authentic science/biology) at the current level of less than half the optimal amount for life............is somehow really, really bad.

Record global carbon dioxide concentrations despite COVID-19 crisis

https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/record-global-carbon-dioxide-concentrations-despite-covid-19-crisis

"The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) World Environment Situation Room shows a sharp increase in CO₂ concentrations of more than 100 ppm since March 1958.

The curve shows expected seasonal fluctuations: the northern hemisphere has a greater land mass than the southern hemisphere and more vegetation-absorbing CO₂ during the summer. Global CO₂ concentrations peak in May at the end of the northern hemisphere winter. Then, as photosynthesis takes place and new foliage appears, it absorbs CO₂, lowering concentrations by about 7.5 ppm until October. During the northern hemisphere winter, the Earth has less photosynthesis activity, so CO₂ concentrations go up until the next cycle."

"Given that the Homo sapiens appeared about 300,000 years ago, and the first trace of Homo sapiens sapiens (also called anatomically modern humans) dates to 196,000 years ago, no individual of our species has experienced such high levels of CO₂.

“This is, of course, of great concern for our climate, and demonstrates, yet again, that urgent action is needed to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. To keep average global warming to 1.5°C we need to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 (2055 at the latest),” says Pascal Peduzzi, Director of UNEP/GRID-Geneva and Programme Manager of the World Environment Situation Room."

Highest since humans have been around. Must be pretty bad, right?

Nope, wrong.

They intentionally don't tell you about this:

Dinosaur Era Had 5 Times Today's CO2

https://www.livescience.com/44330-jurassic-dinosaur-carbon-dioxide.html

"Dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 250 million years ago knew a world with five times more carbon dioxide than is present on Earth today, researchers say, and new techniques for estimating the amount of carbon dioxide on prehistoric Earth may help scientists predict how Earth's climate may change in the future.

The findings are detailed in a recent paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

During the Jurassic Period, dinosaurs — ranging from the plant-eating Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus to the meat-craving Ceratosaurus and Megalosaurus — ruled the world. During this time, the Earth's interior was not standing still; rather, the supercontinent Pangaea had started to split into two smaller landmasses, called Laurasia and Gondwana.

These tectonic movements made the oceans close up and the tectonic plates sink into the Earth. This process, called subduction,led to volcanism at the surface, with rocks constantly melting and emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. Huge amounts of this greenhouse gas made the climate during the Jurassic Period extremely humid and warm, said geoscientist Douwe van der Meer, lead author of the study and a researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands."

metmike: Of course there aren't enough fossil fuels in the ground for us to burn to get to the optimal level for life, which would be just over double the current level and close to 1,000 ppm and we should be concerned that the warming could possibly at some point cause sea level increases to be an issue many decades from now.......with them currently going up around an inch/decade.

But to continue to assert that we are killing the planet with CO2 emissions(which are greening it up) is anti science bunkola.

We rescued life from CO2 starvation and dangerously low levels of CO2 that were present prior to the Industrial Revolution. Life is begging us for much more..........to get us back closer to the optimal levels in the past that maximized development for  most life forms on the planet.

C'mon man, everybody reading this can't deny the authentic facts/science when you see them if you have an open mind. Ignore the crapola propaganda being fed to you for decades on this topic and use an open mind to see the truth:

C'mon man.............use your eyes and brain (-:

Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

      

From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.

This image shows the change in leaf area across the globe from 1982-2015.Credits: Boston University/R. Myneni

The previous page(s) is irrefutable science proving the benefits of CO2, that was once much higher than this as life flourished and you've known the law of photosynthesis for plants since you learned it in school as a child and the key role of CO2.

Remember this irrefutable equation defining photosythesis?

Sun +H2O +Minerals(in the ground) +CO2(beneficial)  O2 +Food(sugars)

They hijacked climate science and are twisting authentic science to convince you of this:

Sun +H2O +Minerals +POLLUTION(CO2)  Killing the planet!

CO2 is the building block for all life on this greening planet and the optimal level is over double the current, ambient, atmospheric level!

You know it's true.........but ask............ why are we not being told that it's greening up our planet and that the last 40 years, have featured the best weather/climate for life in at least the last 1,000 years?

Most of the answers are here:

Climate Reality discussions

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27864/