Seeing this article – Former Governor General calls for Cabinet shakeup on land management – spruiking Greening Australia got me thinking about if we really need another group to improve or care for the landscape. It seems to me that there is a plethora of groups such as Landcare – Caring for our Country – now we hear of Green Army – etc etc all doing much the same sort of things.
Yet all along nature has been greening Australia with the help of rising carbon dioxide levels – according to the CSIRO. The CSIRO has documented large increases in native vegetation over vast areas of Australia.
In central NSW I notice much evidence of bush returning to what were cleared paddocks – this is even obvious from the Barton Highway between Canberra and Yass.
In 27 months from July 2012 to September 2014 Caring for our Country has received 682 grants totalling $1.104Billion dollars – while total grants from the Dept of Environment were $3.063Billion. I would bet that the increase in native vegetation documented by CSIRO would absolutely dwarf any increase due to the environmental work being sponsored by the Dept of Environment at great cost to taxpayers. In other words many of these grants are probably mostly just a waste of money and should be drastically cut back.
Noticed the same. Commenting on another post I said that there is now more trees and set aside bushland in South-East Queensland than in the past inspite of more housing. As an example the sugar mill in Nambour was closed about 12 years ago. All the sugar growing has gone- fields and tramways are reverting to bush. The Sunshine Coast council has bought or rezoned land for national parks and is forcing developers to set aside bushland corridors and parkland.
I’ve done my bit, greening all the Pilbara and Kimberley subdivisions, minesites, with native plants. Now for 5 million trees in 5 years, all income producing native fruits and nuts. Carbon credit money accepted by those who have a Green warmist conscience that needs fixing! Program has started NOW! 40 bores ready now, land use rights sorted, all indigenous, ticks all boxes.
It’s called Savannah Enrichment Planting: pindanpost.com/2014/07/10/conservation-of-the-kimberley-enrichment-of-the-savannah/
The Greening continues: pindanpost.com/2014/07/10/conservation-of-the-kimberley-enrichment-of-the-savannah/
The Greening continues: oops, did it again, too quick on the trigger …
Not again darn it, it must be getting too late for my bedtime: pindanpost.com/2014/09/14/benefits-of-higher-co2-shown-in-trials-the-greening/
This gives some additional information wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/17/another-benefit-of-climate-change-and-increased-co2-trees-continue-to-grow-at-a-faster-rate/
One should expect no less of an effect from beneficial increases in atmospheric CO2. We are still close to the minimum for plants and trees to survive… about 250 Parts Per Million. Optimum from research is 2200 parts per million. The recent increase of CO2 is a boon to plants and trees, and does not seem to be an overriding factor in Global temperatures, as they have been flat for 12 years and turned down the last two years. Canadians, who have to deal with cool temperatures, like southern Austrailia, are smart about it and they direct the full exhaust from Greenhouse heaters into the greenhouse to double plant growth. With CO2 so beneficial to plants and trees, and proof from the actual climate that increases in atmospheric CO2 does not dominate to cause warming, we should continue to put CLEAN CO2 up in the atmosphere, WITHOUT the other pollutants from fossil fuel consumption. Worst of all for us humans and plants and trees and animals, is that there is a consensus among climate scientists who are not being paid to support the CO2 global warming model THAT HAS PROVEN TO HAVE FAILED, that we have already entered a mini-ice age as the last two sunspot cycles over 45 years are dramatically lower, and look like those 400 years ago when we entered 50+ years of freezing and starving human beings. THIS is what we should be preparing for, NOT heat that has not been trumpeted as inescapable, per their UNPROVEN climate models that forecasted heat, and failed.