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# In Praise of CO2
- URL: https://goodoil.news/in-praise-of-co2/
- Published: 2021-03-06T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-06T08:17:19.000Z
- Author: WH
- Tags: Climate Change, World Climate change, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

An interesting [post](https://phzoe.com/2021/02/16/fortunate-global-greening/?ref=goodoil.news) appeared on the interwebs a few days ago. In it **Zoe Phin** reported on some analyses she had done on publicly available NASA data; the Vegetation Index, a measure of how green the earth is.

Using the wizardry of extracting, manipulating and graphing the source data from 2000 to 2021 she found an interesting result: the earth has become 10% greener.

The data is collected by satellite every 16 days and shows the seasonal variations in leaf cover etc. Because the earth is only \~29% land there is an upper limit to this index measure of 0.29, and this would mean all of the land is covered in heavy vegetation.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/veg_the_bfd.png)

Vegetation Index – NASA data graphed by Zoe Phin. The BFD

The start index figure is 0.0936, the end figure is 0.1029, an increase of 9.94%.

> Planet Earth is 10% greener than it was 20 years ago.

The Greens must be ecstatic about this wonderful result from the steadily increasing levels of atmospheric CO2.

Oh …wait! Those who want a greener planet hate CO2.

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