So?
Plant cover across the Antarctic peninsula has soared more than tenfold over the last few decades, as the climate crisis heats up the icy continent.
We are in an interglacial period. This is to be expected. We do not have a climate crisis. The Earth is warming naturally as it has done in the past – with or without us. When that Maunder Minimum hits, we will enter a period of cooling. This happens. It is up to us to adapt, not panic.
Warmer weather is more benign than colder weather, this has been obvious for centuries. If temperatures were plummeting there would still be no need to panic, we have always been able to cope.
But . .but . . if the scruff are going to cope, where is our big juicy income stream going to come from?
More green cover also means more CO2 capture thereby providing positive feedback.
Thank you monoi!!!
Sorry to be a stickler but that would be negative feedback. It is this that causes relative stability over long periods. Positive feedback causes things to spiral off in one direction until, usually, a negative feedback is encountered which restores a different equilibrium once more.
I stand corrected, I was trying to mean positive as in beneficial overall.
The Antarctic Peninsula is the location of not inconsiderable volcanic activity, so any warming there is as likely to come from below as above.