Sentences with phrase «fertilization greening earth»

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Results showed that carbon dioxide fertilization explains 70 percent of the greening effect, said co-author Ranga Myneni, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University.

Ridley claimed that Myneni had found that 31 % of the Earth's vegetated land had «greened» between 1982 and 2011, and that there had been an increase in gross productivity by 14 %, about half of which could be attributed to carbon dioxide fertilization.

Meanwhile, climate economists debate the pros and cons of a moderately warmer and wetter world — and the pros of the CO2 fertilization effect responsible for greening planet earth.

In addition, Ridley did not make it clear that Myneni had suggested that 42 % of the 14 % increase in annual productivity «can be attributed to relaxation of climatic constraints to plant growth,» with «57 % to other «anthropogenic factors»,» whereas the paper published in the journal «Nature Climate Change» in April 2016 did not present a figure for annual productivity, instead concluding that 25 % to 50 % of the Earth's vegetated area had greened, with about 70 % of this trend attributable to carbon dioxide fertilization.

Ridley said Myneni had found that 31 % of the Earth's vegetated land had «greened» between 1982 and 2011, and that there had been an increase in gross productivity by 14 %, about half of which could be attributed to carbon dioxide fertilization.

Consequences of warming regardless of source, except for sea level rise, is gross speculation with the exception of measured / understood beneficial results of longer growing seasons and, regardless of source of CO2, greening of the earth through atmospheric fertilization.