{"id":423611,"date":"2026-01-28T13:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423611"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:48:54","slug":"new-study-affirms-rising-co2s-greening-impact-across-india-a-region-with-no-net-warming-in-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423611","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0New Study Affirms Rising CO2\u2019s Greening Impact Across India \u2013 A Region with No Net Warming In 75 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rising CO2 levels have indeed contributed to a phenomenon known as “global greening,” where satellite observations show increased vegetation cover and plant growth across much of the planet. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is often referred to as the CO2 fertilization effect, where higher atmospheric carbon dioxide enhances photosynthesis in many plants (particularly C3 plants like trees, wheat, and rice), allowing them to grow faster, produce more leaves, and use water more efficiently.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA-led studies, based on satellite data from instruments like MODIS and AVHRR, have documented this trend since the 1980s.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From No Trick Zone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Decades of satellite data confirm the globe has been substantially greening \u2013 as defined by rising Leaf Area Index (LAI) values \u2013 since the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CO2 fertilization effect (CFE) enhances plant productivity via improved light use efficiency and water use efficiency. In other words, with elevated CO2, photosynthesis rates are not as hampered as they would be when sunlight and water availability are limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\u00a0new study<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0indicates India is the second largest contributor to global greening, and that CFE has driven a \u201csubstantial expansion of global green cover over the last two decades.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors found the CFE has \u201cnearly doubled\u201d the trend values in net primary production [NPP] across India relative to the trend values when the CFE is not considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, despite the elevated CO2, much of India has been cooling since 2000. While the southern peninsula and parts of eastern India have been warming this century, \u201ccentral and northwestern regions experienced a cooling trend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be noted that India\u2019s annual mean non-warming trend has been ongoing since 1950 (as shown in Sanjay et al., 2020<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rising CO2 levels have indeed contributed to a phenomenon known as “global greening,” where satellite observations show increased vegetation cover and plant growth across much of the planet. This is often referred to as the CO2 fertilization effect, where higher atmospheric carbon dioxide enhances photosynthesis in many plants (particularly C3 plants like trees, wheat, and rice), allowing them to grow faster, produce more leaves, and use water more efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":423620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"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.G3E4ohGYKXCuvy1IpeQXQc_KR26nJtM8A2roKh0FkJAMQ"},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829997,691840976,691818237,691819660,691826023,691840977],"class_list":{"0":"post-423611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co","9":"tag-co2-fertilization-effect-cfe","10":"tag-india","11":"tag-photosynthesis","12":"tag-temperature-changes","13":"tag-warming-trend","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQMYOsAm4YGxnpSC6oNEFMGuagorN22lYvyeazZ6H3T2KEwMy8gu2K1vJGIBIZHYkBxd0ivlJ5WksS2S3OAlHAhu9R12ypvhk14ebTTL_LIT-xBOhXq00BNAAGROiwIWiIUxGnzXmHN3-sPkaOI514jhNwyDJw-2.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Mcr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":346897,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346897","url_meta":{"origin":423611,"position":0},"title":"New Antarctic Greening Study Wilfully Blind to CO2 Fertilization","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"15\/10\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The study published in\u00a0Nature Geoscience, titled \u201cSustained Greening of the Antarctic Peninsula Observed from Satellites,\u201d focuses on the observed increase in vegetation, particularly moss-dominated ecosystems, on the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). 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