Debunked: Emissions causing desertification?

Hey everyone. Steve Milloy here. Fifty years ago, climate apocalyptics alarmed us in the New York Times about looming desertification. In 1977, the New York Times reported that deserts were spreading by 14 million acres per year.
In 1988, Democrat presidential candidate Michael Dukakis fretted desertification in a New York Times debate with George Bush. By 1998, there was a UN treaty on desertification. In 1999, the Vancouver Sun combined the titles of popular 20th century novels to report that: “The good earth was gone with the wind.”
And the Vancouver Sun kind of had it right. It was all fiction. As it turns out, desertification is not happening. Greening is. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - no slouch when it comes to climate hysteria - reports that increased carbon dioxide, quote, “is fast-tracking photosynthesis in plants.
By allowing them to use scarce water more efficiently, the carbon dioxide-rich air fertilizes vegetation growth in even some of the driest places. As we pump yet more carbon dioxide into the air, arid-land greening seems set to continue,” end quote.
And NASA satellites photos confirm that the Earth is, in fact, greening. Desertification? Wrong again. Stay up with the latest on the climate hoax. Follow me on X at @JunkScience and at my web site JunkScience.com. Thanks for watching.