New report says higher level of CO2 has more benefits for humans and plants than harm

Indur Goklany has put together a comprehensive report on the benefits of CO2 for the GWPF (
global Warming Policy Foundation).

Jo Novas website has a good summary of this 64 page report.

Summary
1.This paper addresses the question of whether, and how much, increased carbon dioxide concentrations have benefited the biosphere and humanity by stimulating plant growth, warming the planet and increasing rainfall.
2.Empirical data confirms that the biosphere’s productivity has increased by about 14% since 1982, in large part as a result of rising carbon dioxide levels.
3.Thousands of scientific experiments indicate that increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in the air have contributed to increases in crop yields.
4.These increases in yield are very likely to have reduced the appropriation of land for farming by 11–17% compared with what it would otherwise be, resulting in more land being left wild.
5.Satellite evidence confirms that increasing carbon dioxide concentrations have also resulted in greater productivity of wild terrestrial ecosystems in all vegetation types.
6.Increasing carbon dioxide concentrations have also increased the productivity of many marine ecosystems.
7. In recent decades, trends in climate-sensitive indicators of human and environmental wellbeing have improved and continue to do so despite claims that they would deteriorate because of global warming.
8.Compared with the benefits from carbon dioxide on crop and biosphere productivity, the adverse impacts of carbon dioxide – on the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, on sea level, vector-borne disease prevalence and human health – have been too small to measure or have been swamped by other factors.
9.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.
10.It is very likely that the impact of rising carbon dioxide concentrations is currently net beneficial for both humanity and the biosphere generally. These benefits are real, whereas the costs of warming are uncertain. 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.

REFERENCE

Goklany, Indur (2015) Carbon Dioxide, The Good News, GWPF

You can read the full report here : http://www.thegwpf.com/climate-doomsayers-ignore-benefits-of-carbon-dioxide/

So read for yourself...

 

Possible dip in CO2 emissions...

Study sees possible unexpected decline in worldwide carbon dioxide emissions
Monday 7th December, 2015 — Global carbon dioxide emissions may be dropping ever so slightly this year, spurred by a dramatic plunge in Chinese pollution, according to a surprising new study by a scientific team that regularly tracks heat-trapping pollution.

 

Leftist love to credit China but the fact is they have not cleaned up a bit. If they have polluted slightly less it is because their economy is tanking and they are running less factories, less trucks and less power plants. Then again the dooms day predictions of ever escalating carbon could be wrong or maybe the carbon is hiding in the ocean or under rocks.

 

I believe there were periods in the deep past when CO2 was well over 1000 ppm, and earth was burgeoning with life.....

 

Heresy! Prepare for the Inquisition!

 

you might find reputable sites have better information on this for years agronomists have been concerned about the impact of global warming due to the various impacts of climate change. Scientific research in this area has included developing drought tolerant species and species that can germinate at higher soil temperatures.

your site also seems to ignore that much of the worlds food is grown in regions which are already warm (where much of the worlds population have lived for millenia). Not only have these regions been affected by warmer temperatures, but also by increasing frequency of extreme weather events, which have already begun to affect food supplies.

if climate change leads to a shift in food production regions, the "benefits" will not be immediate, and there will need to be major reorganisation of the way we grow and distribute food around the planet.

you would also get massive migration ... hundreds of thousands of climate refugees moving north.