A new nature plant study shows the average size of trees in the Amazon has been increasing by 3.2% every decade, directly tied to rising CO2 levels.
For years, models and media warned of Amazon collapse, but field data from almost 200 forest plots over 30 years show the opposite.
Both large canopy trees and smaller understory trees are growing bigger. In southwest Amazonia alone, between 11 and 17 gigatons of extra biomass are being added each year, carbon that the models didn't account for.
CO2 isn't killing the forest, it's feeding it.
The Amazon today is stronger, bigger and more resilient than it was a generation ago. The planet overall is greener, more CO2, more growth, more life.
It shouldn't matter if temperatures in Timbuktu or Cincinnati go up by a modest degree over 250 years.
And it really doesn't.
World temperatures have varied by just 1.4C since the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1769—when the world population was around a billion. That was an era when most people lived in thatched huts in remote rural villages. It was also the tail end of the 600-year Little Ice Age, the coldest period Europe had seen in 10,000 years.
Because most of that single-degree rise has already happened, it becomes largely meaningless for humans, who have proven they can thrive in almost any condition. The real argument is how, and why, a political class claims it can divine the future using climate-based prophecies.
The IPCC has already ditched its extreme 5-degree warming scenario for 2050. Yet the concept of a 'global' climate had little real meaning before the rise of planetary alarmism. Climate was always essentially regional—a mosaic of localism, uniqueness and geographic difference. It was a practical tool used by seafarers and navigators to capture the conditions of the distinctive new worlds they discovered.
Historically, climate only referred to conditions measured over thirty years, perhaps far longer. The very idea of 'climate change' was virtually unheard of before the twentieth century. The modern concept is a direct offshoot from global warming hysteria, turbocharged by Al Gore's astonishingly misleading portrayal of a world shaping up for extinction.
In the modern era, chiefly since we were told the world faced a 'global climate crisis', climate has become the ultimate metaphor for human neglect and exploitation. Yet this framework is entirely new.
Few people used to believe anyone could predict climate decades into the future; meteorologists routinely struggle with a three-day forecast. Yet this predictive illusion now underpins a 40-year campaign that is dismantling the economies of Western nations.
So far, this effort has cost the world an estimated $147 trillion (McKinsey Global, 2022). By the Net Zero deadline of 2050, this bill will hit $275 trillion—or roughly three times today's global GDP.
We have traded a practical, regional understanding of our environment for a globalised infrastructure of fear—and we are dismantling Western civilisation to pay for a future no one can actually see.
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