UN agency: forest area dropping! Wait...new study claims it's actually INcreasing??
It's an article of screaming, shrieking, hair-pulling faith among "-studies" majors (and reporters) that the amount of forested land on earth is dropping fast. This is a CRISIS! A disaster! Because, well, trust them, cuz they graduated from really exclusive universities.
The people who believe this have prestigious, well-funded support for their beliefs. For example, the prestigious, well-funded United Nations has an equally well-funded agency called the "Food and Agriculture Organization." And IT claims that between 1990 and 2015 global forest area dropped from 4,128 million hectares to 3,999 hectares.
That's...interesting, because according to a new study published in Nature, global tree canopy cover actually increased by 865,000 square miles between 1982 and 2016. The Nature study posits that instead of losing 1.29 million square kilometers between 1990-2015, as the FAO claimed, the world actually gained 2.24 million square kilometers in forest area since 1982.
And Nature isn't exactly a hotbed of rapacious capitalists.
As Ronald Bailey notes in Reason, “Forests in [mountain] regions are expanding as [a very small amount of] climate warming enables trees to grow higher up on mountains.”
The greatest increase in tree canopy occurred in Europe, including European Russia, where it exploded by 35%. A close second was found in China, where tree canopy gained 34%. In the U.S., tree canopy increased by 15%.
IF the Nature study is right, the U.N.'s FAO is wrong. So what methodology did each study use? No idea. But history shows that the UN is...um...a screwy, corrupt agency. The agency's myriad organizations are dominated by socialists, and have an anti-capitalist agenda. They invariably push the tale of "catastrophic, human-caused global warming," because that's a tool they can use to get stupid, virtue-signalling politicians to heavily tax all fossil fuels, crippling their economies.
But then you probably already guessed that.
The people who believe this have prestigious, well-funded support for their beliefs. For example, the prestigious, well-funded United Nations has an equally well-funded agency called the "Food and Agriculture Organization." And IT claims that between 1990 and 2015 global forest area dropped from 4,128 million hectares to 3,999 hectares.
That's...interesting, because according to a new study published in Nature, global tree canopy cover actually increased by 865,000 square miles between 1982 and 2016. The Nature study posits that instead of losing 1.29 million square kilometers between 1990-2015, as the FAO claimed, the world actually gained 2.24 million square kilometers in forest area since 1982.
And Nature isn't exactly a hotbed of rapacious capitalists.
As Ronald Bailey notes in Reason, “Forests in [mountain] regions are expanding as [a very small amount of] climate warming enables trees to grow higher up on mountains.”
The greatest increase in tree canopy occurred in Europe, including European Russia, where it exploded by 35%. A close second was found in China, where tree canopy gained 34%. In the U.S., tree canopy increased by 15%.
IF the Nature study is right, the U.N.'s FAO is wrong. So what methodology did each study use? No idea. But history shows that the UN is...um...a screwy, corrupt agency. The agency's myriad organizations are dominated by socialists, and have an anti-capitalist agenda. They invariably push the tale of "catastrophic, human-caused global warming," because that's a tool they can use to get stupid, virtue-signalling politicians to heavily tax all fossil fuels, crippling their economies.
But then you probably already guessed that.
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