Good Things

About Global Warming

With all the exaggerated claims of impending doom from global warming, I thought I might mention a few good things likely to occur if the planet warms noticeably.

Incidentally, wouldn’t it be interesting to discover that increased atmospheric greenhouse gases are caused by global warming from solar and geothermal sources; instead of greenhouse gases causing global warming

First, cold weather winter mortality rates are much higher than summer, so something about cold weather is more stressful to humans than hot. Make plans and provisions for both cooling and warming. One thing is obvious from earth’s history, climate changes will occur.

More atmospheric heat should accelerate the hydrologic cycle increasing potential rainfall everywhere, noticeably in arid and desert areas, increasing crop variety and yields worldwide. Increased rainfall will bring more abundant fresh water to all locations, oddly meaningful to arid polar regions that receive little annual precipitation. It will also speed up icecap melt contributing to coastal flooding, but much of it will evaporate increasing worldwide relative humidity, rainfall, and eventually fuller and new terrestrial rivers and lakes, and more abundant hydro-electric power.

During earths ancient history the atmosphere has had many times the current levels of green house gases. During the Jurassic period about eight times current levels, with planet wide temperatures perhaps 50 F degrees higher than today, with prolific plant, insect and animal life, although long before humans.

Increased carbon dioxide will fertilize rapid plant and crop growth feeding many more of the worlds starving people and covering barren landscapes helping to moderate higher temperatures. Increased insects will pollinate many more plants; bees should thrive and animals that eat insects will do well. Larger populations of self pollinating plants will thrive and evolve quickly; bad for the allergic, but, good for the hungry.

A greater variety of plant nutrition will be more widely available in larger quantity with less distribution cost with many plants, animals and insects ranging much farther and migrating much closer to the poles than anytime in recorded human history.

Human activity in colder climates is less economically efficient and infrastructure construction and maintenance are more costly. Clothing, food, housing and transportation are all more expensive in colder climates. Cooling occupyied spaces and pest control will be more expensive, as will the control of warm weather parasites and diseases.

So what is so bad about moderate global warming?

Mostly, businesses and governments can’t control it and therefore will find it more difficult to adopt quickly to tax and profit from it. The kinds of power and oppression that use the artificial scarcity of food, clothing, housing, health and security will be lost to dictators and despots, and they will have to resort to more outright violence and vulgar manipulations in plain view.

A person will be able to accumulate resources and wealth, replace ignorance, clamor toward freedom, and throw off the yoke of oppression and excessive taxation once again.