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Don't Tell Climate Change Fanatics This Piece Of News
by
Hank BerrienSeptember 4, 2018
Global warming and climate change fanatics, stop now before you read any further.
According to a
new study published in
Nature, in the roughly quarter century between 1982 and 2016 global tree canopy cover increased by 865,000 square miles.
While the area of bare ground and short vegetation is diminishing, forest area is growing. As Ronald Bailey notes in
Reason, “Forests in montane regions are expanding as 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%.