by Daniel Brouse
September 13, 2025
The CO₂ Coalition isn’t doing science. It’s a fossil-fuel–funded propaganda group that pushes twisted half-truths. One of their most absurd and dangerous lies is the idea that “we need more CO₂” because it supposedly makes the Earth greener. That’s not science — that’s climate disinformation.
Here are the facts:
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Forests turning from sinks to sources – The Amazon, boreal forests, and other ecosystems have already shifted from being net carbon sinks to net carbon emitters in recent years. That’s not “greening,” that’s collapse.
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Pollution poisoning plants – Ground-level ozone is directly damaging vegetation, slashing net primary productivity (NPP) by 20–70% in many forests and croplands. Our own long-term field studies in Pennsylvania show old-growth trees have lost ~40% of foliage since 2003, with canopy height shrinking by a third. This mirrors global patterns of decline.
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The illusion of greening – Sure, you can get a temporary burst of vines and annuals when old trees die. But those species are carbon-neutral year to year. They don’t store long-term carbon, and in fact they speed the death of remaining trees.
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Feedbacks accelerating – Permafrost is no longer thawing slowly; it’s burning year-round, releasing greenhouse gases far faster than earlier models assumed. Add in water vapor amplification (7% more capacity per °C of warming, per Clausius-Clapeyron) and extreme rainfall physics, and we’re now seeing violent rain events with momentum and force scaling off the charts — tearing up soil, collapsing hillsides, and wrecking ecosystems.
Bottom line: the Earth isn’t “greening.” It’s browning and blackening — losing old growth, losing resilience, and spinning into feedback loops that accelerate warming and destruction.
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* Our probabilistic, ensemble-based climate model — which incorporates complex socio-economic and ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, nonlinear system — projects that global temperatures are becoming unsustainable this century. This far exceeds earlier estimates of a 4°C rise over the next thousand years, highlighting a dramatic acceleration in global warming. We are now entering a phase of compound, cascading collapse, where climate, ecological, and societal systems destabilize through interlinked, self-reinforcing feedback loops.