·
Fewer cold-related
deaths. Many, many
more people die from cold than from
heat (though the cold related deaths don't get as much media attention). The warmer
it gets, the fewer people will die from cold. Moreover, global warming models
all predict that the coldest times of the year, the coldest times of the day,
and the coldest parts of the world will warm much more than the warmest times
of the year, times of the day, and parts of the world. So, the positive effect
of warming in the cold areas/times will more than offset, by a huge margin in
fact, the negative effect of warming in the warm areas/times.
·
Increased food supply. Alarmists will tell you
that global warming endangers the world's food supply. This is because they do
not have a basic understanding of agronomic production. There are three things
that crops need more than anything else to grow and produce high yields: heat,
moisture, and carbon dioxide. Some crops can get too much heat, but
even the worst predictions of global warming alarmists don't call for such
temperatures. In most cases, increased temperatures will increase yields.
Moreover, millions of acres that are now too cold to grow crops will become
warm enough. Furthermore, in traditional crop-growing areas, it is entirely
possible that, with a shorter, warmer winter, farmers will be able to plant
their crops earlier and harvest them later. What this means is that they might
be able to get two crops planted and harvested in
one year, effectively doubling the yield. The case can be made that rainfall
will decrease in some areas of the world if global warming continues. But
overall, worldwide precipitation will increase. So we might have to
shift farming to other areas (which is not a bad idea anyway) but there will be
plenty of places where rainfall is adequate for growing crops. And even where
it isn't, there's always irrigation. Carbon dioxide is obvious. Supposedly,
it's the culprit behind global warming, so if global warming continues, it will
be because of more carbon dioxide. But plants live on carbon dioxide - the more
of it they have, the faster they grow and the higher yields they obtain.
Greenhouse growers have artificially raised CO2 levels to several times
current atmospheric levels, with no ill effects (and plenty of positive
effects) to the crops. All in all, global warming will probably be the best
thing to happen to agricultural production since the invention of the tractor and
man-made fertilizers.
·
Less Disease. The most common diseases, that kill far more people
(at least in developed nations) than exotic stuff like malaria, AIDS, Ebola,
etc., are associated with cold weather. In a technical sense, cold weather does
not cause the common cold, flu, strep
throat, sinusitis, and pneumonia. However, cold weather does force people to
spend more time indoors, in close contact with other people, and with limited
ventilation. This is an ideal environment for diseases to spread from one
person to another. Warmer weather would allow people to spend more time
outdoors, where diseases cannot easily spread. As for the exotic stuff, the
only one that anybody is really talking about being worse because of global
warming is malaria. They claim malaria is a tropical disease, and that as
tropical temperatures spread, so will the disease. But malaria isn't tropical
at all. A hundred years ago, its range was limited only by the range of its
carrier, the anopheles mosquito, whose range was pretty much worldwide. And
then all of the developed nations eradicated the anopheles mosquito (with DDT),
thus eradicating malaria. If, for some reason (not global warming), the
mosquito (and the disease) made a comeback, it could be eradicated again, with
more DDT. Not. A. Problem.
If you look at global
warming as the alternative to stopping global warming, then you
could also list all of the disadvantages of stopping global warming as benefits
of global warming itself. For example:
·
Freedom. Stopping global warming will force the people to
hand over their rights and freedoms to an all-powerful government. This is
indisputable. We will have to give up our right to drive cars, our right to
electricity, our freedom of enterprise, and our right to anything else that
involves the burning of fossil fuels. And we will even have to give up our
freedom of speech, because, in the name of saving the planet, the government
cannot tolerate any SKEPTICISM about global warming.
·
Prosperity. Stopping global warming (if the alarmists are
correct
about its causes) will require a ban on (or at least a massive
reduction in) the burning of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are what drives our
economy. Without them, everything will grind to a halt quite quickly.
Businesses will fail. Jobs will disappear. The economy will go into the tank.
·
Human comfort, convenience, and entertainment. One of the rights we will
have to give up is the right to use electricity. We won't be able to use our
stoves, our lights, our air conditioners, our heaters, our dishwashers, our hot
water heaters, our televisions, our computers, etc. Are those things that you
want to do without? Can you even survive without those things?
·
Food supply. I've already mentioned how the food supply will
increase dramatically under global warming. But any effort to stop global
warming will cause a huge decrease in the food supply.
Growing crops requires tractors, and tractors use fossil fuels. Except they
won't be using fossil fuels anymore if we are going to stop global warming.
Tractors will be replaced with mules and other draft animals. Not only will
agricultural production drop by 80-90%, but much of what is left will be
required to feed the draft animals. And what little food is grown will never
make it to the places where people live in massive numbers because that too
requires burning fossil fuels. There will be massive starvation around the
world, especially in large urban areas and other places where no food is grown.
·
World Peace. We already know that China and India are never
going to go along with reducing their carbon dioxide emissions. But no plan to
stop global warming will work without their participation. So what are we going
to do about that? We're going to go to war with them, that's what we are going to
do. The Arab nations will ally themselves with China and India, because that
will be the only customers they have for their oil. The two sides will be
fairly evenly matched, which will make for a very long, very bloody world war.
There will be tens of millions of deaths over years, perhaps decades, in this
World War III, caused by global warming alarmism. Not to mention that the war
will defeat its own purpose anyway, because of the massive burning of fossil
fuels that will be required to wage that war.
·
Avoiding Worldwide Nuclear Armageddon. It is very, very likely
that the WW3 mentioned in the previous point will, eventually, go nuclear. Then everything is for
naught. Oh sure, global warming will be stopped, because of the planet-covering
cloud of radioactive dust, smoke, and soot, blocking 90% of the sunlight from
reaching the surface. But between the immediate effect of the missiles
themselves and the delayed effects of radiation poisoning, the vast majority of
the earth's human population will be gone (and for those of you more worried
about the precious polar bears, they'll be gone too).
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