Dec
Fact-checking Al Gore’s “rising tree mortality” statement
Watts Up With That? scores again in their fact-checking of another erroneous Al Gore statement. In a December 15 Reuters story Gore is quoted as telling a United Nations audience we have “rising tree mortality.” Murder. We Flat-Earthers are responsible for murder. And if we are murdering trees, the world is becoming less green–literally–right? Hold on, not so fast!
Go to WattsUpWithThat.com for a very detailed and complete region-by-region analysis, along with satellite photos, but suffice it to say, the world’s vegetation actually appears to be increasing. But here are some comments on the Global condition:
Globally net primary productivity (NPP) has increased. As the IPCC’s WG II report (p. 106) says:
Satellite-derived estimates of global net primary production from satellite data of vegetation indexes indicate a 6% increase from 1982 to 1999, with large increases in tropical ecosystems (Nemani et al., 2003) [Figure 1]. The study by Zhou et al. (2003), also using satellite data, confirm that the Northern Hemisphere vegetation activity has increased in magnitude by 12% in Eurasia and by 8% in NorthAmerica from 1981 to 1999
What does Al Gore want? More green or more ice? One thing we do know: if he convinces the world we need more ice, he’ll get more green in his pocket.
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WTF?
where is the “fact checking”..
He said “tree mortality”…
Any one who lives in Western Canada or the US has heard about the Pine Beetle.. Which is killing trees at an alarming rate..
The pine beetle infestation is being caused by two things.
Over managed forests (Read: we humans put out forests fires) and winters that havent been cold enough.. (Pine beetle eggs are killed with a long perioid of -30c temperatures.. the last few years the avg temperatures have gone up)
Does any of this have to do with Co2? probably not..
the FACT is the AVG temp. has gone up, and allowed the pine beetle to spread..
Hahaha