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[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sure. The capacity of some plants to become more drought resistant by decreasing stomatal size and/or density has been known for 40 years.

What I didn't know until this paper is that since 2000 parts of the world are browning. But it's certainly important to get the calibration correct, as climate models have vegetation as an important component, so there's sorts of papers will increase their accuracy.

Gregory Wrightstone, executive director of the CO2 Coalition, told Just The News that global greening is among benefits of global warming that are ignored and dismissed because it doesn’t fit a narrative that climate change is causing a crisis.

Not its not. It's been in the IPCC reports forever.

The claims that scientists are missing the science that only the fossil fuel funded spinbrokers have notices is very dumb.

As more CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere, plant carbon capture increases through the CO2 fertilization effect in regions where plant growth is not limited by, for instance, nutrient availability. - AR6 (2021)

Terrestrial model results indicate that enhanced plant growth due to higher CO2 (CO2 fertilisation) and anthropogenic nitrogen deposition contribute significantly to CO2 uptake, i.e., are potentially responsible for the residual terrestrial sink described above, along with other proposed mechanisms, such as changes in land-management practices. -TAR (2001)