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Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats - zqwerty - 06-10-2024
Analysis of satellite data finds plant cover has increased more than tenfold over the last few decades
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/antarctic-plant-cover-growing-at-dramatic-rate-as-climate-heats
RE: Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats - Lilith7 - 07-10-2024
That doesn't look good. We've probably stuffed the planet & so far, not too many govts seem keen to attempt any change which might help.
The world is a weird place. And humans are crazy.
RE: Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats - Bracken - 07-10-2024
(06-10-2024, 09:37 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Analysis of satellite data finds plant cover has increased more than tenfold over the last few decades
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/antarctic-plant-cover-growing-at-dramatic-rate-as-climate-heats
I wonder how much it increased before the "last few decades".
RE: Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats - Lilith7 - 07-10-2024
(07-10-2024, 02:03 PM)Bracken Wrote:(06-10-2024, 09:37 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Analysis of satellite data finds plant cover has increased more than tenfold over the last few decades
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/antarctic-plant-cover-growing-at-dramatic-rate-as-climate-heats
I wonder how much it increased before the "last few decades".
Good point, but I suspect we may never know.
RE: Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats - harm_less - 07-10-2024
(07-10-2024, 02:03 PM)Bracken Wrote:(06-10-2024, 09:37 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Analysis of satellite data finds plant cover has increased more than tenfold over the last few decades
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/antarctic-plant-cover-growing-at-dramatic-rate-as-climate-heats
I wonder how much it increased before the "last few decades".
Answers to that are further down the article:
"This place had been hidden from the atmosphere for thousands of years and was colonised by plants within a couple of decades of it becoming ice free – it’s astonishing really,” he said. “It’s a barometer of climate change but also a tipping point for the region as life now has a foothold there.”
And: " Trees were growing at the south pole a few million years ago, when the planet last had as much CO2 in the atmosphere as it does today."