It’s one that has often been celebrated by climate change skeptics and contrarians who have long contended that global warming won’t be all bad, and that plants might help offset any global warming trend. Instead, global greening is perhaps better taken as yet another indicator, visible from space, of how much we are causing the Earth to change. But thus far, researchers do not seem to be arguing that it’s enough to counterbalance the entire human-induced warming trend. The key question then becomes how much this process can offset overall global warming over time. (Cindy Starr/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)Earlier this month, NASA scientists provided a visualization of a startling climate change trend — the Earth is getting greener, as viewed from space, especially in its rapidly warming northern regions.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2016 15:56 UTC