Surprise: New Cause Of Warming Discovered By Scientists Doing Science

Meh. It’s still probably your fault for refusing to live in an off the grid tiny home while growing your own veggies and making your clothes out of hemp

Scientists Identify A Major Source Of Climate Warming. It’s Not CO2

For the first time, scientists were able to use satellites to map the potential warming effect of large-scale changes to vegetation on the Earth’s surface.

“Our results show that vegetation cover change over the period 2000–2015 has produced on average a brighter but warmer land surface,” reads a new study published in the journal Nature.

The European Commission Joint Research Center’s new study found “perturbations in the surface energy balance generated by vegetation change from 2000 to 2015 have led to an average increase of [0.23 degrees Celsius] in local surface temperature where those vegetation changes occurred.”

“Vegetation transitions behind this warming effect mainly relate to agricultural expansion in the tropics, where surface brightening and consequent reduction of net radiation does not counter-balance the increase in temperature associated with reduction in transpiration,” the study found.

A large part of this study is looking at land use, and how small changes can have big impacts, something that Skeptics have been saying for a long time, to go with the Urban Heat Island effect (UHI) and natural variation. Things like forestation, deforestation, turning woodland into farmland (or cities). Planting crops in areas that didn’t used to have them. Creating woodland in areas that didn’t use to have them. All these things and more can have profound effects on weather patterns, and those long-term weather pattern averages are what is known as climate.

And let’s not forget that increased CO2 increases plant growth, and nature puts out more CO2 than mankind.