… caused by recent increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide … 55% of global land mass revealed an “accelerated rate” of vegetation growth   [ Global Ecology and Conservation ] … only 7.3% showing increased decline or ‘browning’ … is an inconvenient fact that is often ignored in mainstream climate science … there have even been attempts to suggest greening has slowed or reversed … It is known that the planet has been greening since at least 1980 … “global greening is an indisputable fact” … CO2 fertilisation dominated the LAI [ Leaf Area Index ] trends that are both rising and accelerating  … the “drought trend” only slowed global greening … “was far from triggering browning” … shows that greening accelerated from 2000 in 55.5% of the globe … Healthy growth can also be observed in the Amazon region … in equatorial East Africa … Roy Spencer, senior scientist at NASA: “Though CO2 is necessary for life on Earth to exist, there is precious little of it in the Earth’s atmosphere.” … there are attempts to stop CO2 entering the atmosphere … bans on fertilisers, cuts of meat production and moves to ‘rewild’ agricultural land … the recent small temperature bounce back from the Little Ice Age has been almost entirely beneficial … hydrocarbon energy has enabled humans to build better protections against Mother Nature … deaths from natural disasters have plunged by over 95% in the last 100 years … Coral reef growth has soared of late … Arctic sea ice appears to have started on the upward slope of a cyclical trend … reducing CO2 back to pre-industrial levels would lead to an 18% decline in the production of many basic global foodstuffs … Current levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are around 420 parts per million (ppm) … there would be a 30-50% increase  in photosynthesis with CO2 in a range from 451-720ppm … would lead to a 25% increase in crop yields … looked in particular at barley and found an increase in yield of 54% if CO2 rose to 700ppm …  Dr. Patrick Moore, who helped found Greenpeace in the 1970s … looks forward to the day when governments will meet to sign treaties promising to increase their carbon emissions                 Global Ecology and Conservation