Good News Stories about Global Warming

[Solly]

Can anyone find any? Why are there very few scientists examining the ways in which global warming can improve the environment (except in flippant ways like, "oh we'll be able to grow wine in Manchester" ).

e.g. A warmer world is a wetter world. More people die of drought-induced famine than flooding. Therefore surely some currently parched areas ought to benefit.

Why don't we hear about this?

[Pekka]

Warm or not, this place will always be cold.

So why not.

[molly bloom]

Re: Good News Stories about Global Warming

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Park Avenue

A warmer world is a wetter world.

QUOTE]


Gotta love those warm, dripping wet Sahara, Kalahari, Namib, Atacama and Great Sandy Deserts.

[Pekka]

Don't diss Kalahari. No one survives, who refuses to apologize this great crime they did.

[Sava]

PA: It's not that simple.

According to most things I've read, global warming does not just mean a "wetter world". Ignorant people tend to think in generalizations like this. Basically, there will be greater extremes. Lots of areas will suffer greater drought. Lots of areas will have increased precipitation. Global currents could also get messed up. Which means Europe could get a lot colder, despite the rest of the world getting a lot warmer.

The thing is PA, when it comes to this world we live in, accelerated climate change is generally not a good thing because the results are terribly unpredictable.

But it's nice to know you take this problem seriously.

[Solly]

I know the easy answer is, "well there are no good effects" but that is just sheer ignorance.

Climate change is natural anyway, climate stability is not. Nature is adaptable.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Park Avenue


Climate change is natural anyway

burning fossil fuels and pumping trillions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is not natural

don't pretend that it is

[DRoseDARs]

@ Sava

He didn't say anything about Humanity's contribution to the phenomenon. Let him say it first, then go at it. And he is right, "Climate change is natural anyway, climate stability is not." We have the lifespans of mayflies compared to the Earth. The climate shifts all the time, but we haven't been around long enough to see the extremes for ourselves; what we have now is mild compared to past climates. Instead, we rely on evidence gathered from core samples of sediments and ice to tell us what has come to pass.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to take a shower. I feel dirty for having agreed with PA on anything.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
Climate change is natural anyway

So's death. That' doesn't mean we ignore murder.

[Sava]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
@ Sava

He didn't say anything about Humanity's contribution to the phenomenon. Let him say it first, then go at it. And he is right, "Climate change is natural anyway, climate stability is not." We have the lifespans of mayflies compared to the Earth. The climate shifts all the time, but we haven't been around long enough to see the extremes for ourselves; what we have now is mild compared to past climates. Instead, we rely on evidence gathered from core samples of sediments and ice to tell us what has come to pass.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to take a shower. I feel dirty for having agreed with PA on anything.

I hope someone put NAIR in your shampoo!!!

[Japher]

Humans may have accelerated global warming, but you can't say for sure that it wouldn't have happen otherwise. We've had climate changes before.

Besides, humans are born of nature, we are not outside of it. Thus, anything we do to it is technically "natural".

[Drake Tungsten]

Gotta love those warm, dripping wet Sahara, Kalahari, Namib, Atacama and Great Sandy Deserts.

The Namib and Atacama deserts aren't particularly warm. Neither are the Gobi, the Ordos, the Takla Makan, the Kyzyl Kum, the Kara Kum, the Dasht-e-Kavir, Patagonia, much of the western United States or Antarctica. Frankly, I fail to see what temperature has to do with desert formation...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Frankly, I fail to see what temperature has to do with desert formation...

It can alter the direction of prevailing winds, an thus rainfall patterns.

[Drake Tungsten]

Does that mean there is going to be more deserts? Or just deserts in different places?

[Sava]

Originally posted by Japher
Besides, humans are born of nature, we are not outside of it. Thus, anything we do to it is technically "natural".

naturally (according to merriamwebster online) - 3 a : without artificial aid

artificial is defined as MANMADE


so you are wrong


OBVIOUSLY