Is there an upside to global warming?

Question

According to most researchers, global warming is now in a cycle that cannot be stopped. There are regions of permafrost now melting that have been frozen for 11,000 years. Most of these regions are frozen peat boggs which are releasing greater amounts of CO2 into the air. Even if human CO2 gas release were to stop today, global warming will continue for centuries.

Most studies point to dire problems arising from global warming, but none give any possible positive outcome. Since this appears to be a ride we cannot stop, is there any upside to global warming?

Answer 1

in the mean time we save on heating bills

Answer 2

If a study mentions only bad effects of climate change and no good effects it is a good sign that it is biased: the authors are trying to scare people rather than present an objective picture.

Plants love CO2: a higher concentration in the atmosphere means less fertilizer is needed. It's impossible that every desert will become drier while every wet area floods more frequently. If weather patterns change there will have to be some dry areas where farming becomes possible. If you look at history, civilization has tended to do better when it's warmer than when it's colder. And if you look at the fossil record, life on Earth does much better when it's warm than when it's cold: it dies off during ice ages and vastly increases in number and variety when it's warmer. The temperatures predicted by even the most pessimistic global-warmers aren't as warm as what Earth experienced during some of the sweltering jungle periods while the dinosaurs ruled.

Answer 3

In NYC this year, the winter had been mild. Rarely, only once, has the thermometer dipped below 25 degrees. So for the short run, the weather has been quite agreeable. For the long run, the entire human race is going to end up under water because of the ice cap melting. What really tickles my bones are folks out there who don't believe that global warming is happening. They think scientist are making this stuff up to get funding. That's a dangerous way of thinking and could end up eliminating entirely the human race and everything else on this earth, except for fish.

Answer 4

The only upside I can see to global warming is that humans can profit off it monetarily. Regardless of the environmental or social tragedy, one thing is for certain is that human innovativeness will find someway to capitalize off of our own difficulties. Someone will surely invent and mass-produce something that will make our lives more comfortable in a warmer climate. Technology corporations will find away to make habitable communities in oceans, so as to render the flooding problem caused by global warming, irrelevant. Despite the environmental maladies that might be inflicted on us due to global warming’s effects, humans with their ingenuity, will find ways to circumnavigate these vicissitudes and make this process profitable as well.

Answer 5

Yes, we can take many many actions: saving energy, change coal and oil by solar , wind and hydro for electricity generation, more forests, hybrid, alcohol, hydrogen for car fuelling, etc.

Things can go much worse if we do nothing.

Scientist are still at work, they will provide more reports with more concrete suggestions to policy makers along this year. But for sure, those actions will be among them.

Answer 6

We can't stop it, but we can make it a lot less bad if we work hard.

Some places (nobody knows exactly where) may be more suited to growing crops because they become warmer and wetter. But, overall, this will be a disaster for agriculture. Rich countries will be able to cope, but it will cost them huge sums of money. In poor countries many people will die of starvation.

But, if we work hard on the problem, those things will be a lot less bad.

Answer 7

international warming is non-exhistant. particular, Al Gore can babble about it as a lot as he needs, yet even as it comes right down to all of it...there has already been international warming, besides as international cooling.

Answer 8

Put bluntly, No. The increased acidity of the ocean will harm the food chain by making the ocean hostile to algae. The increase in average sea level will make water tables that were previously clean and fresh, flooded with ocean water. The weather is already difficult to predict, but those predictions become more difficult with climate change being so out of control.

While a global warming/cooling pattern is a natural phenomenon, what many opponents to environmental science disregard is that the data is vastly outside of the normal range and it's actually a natural cooling trend that is keeping global warming at bay.

Initial predictions were that we'd have a 1.0+ degree increase by 2000, but it actually increased 0.7 degrees, due to cooling effects that were not predictable (as they could not be observed until the pattern set in), such as volcanic eruptions...

Global warming means less farmed land, a weakened food source, more severe and less predictable weather patterns, and a possible loss of naturally potable water.

So no, there are no upsides to climate imbalance.

Answer 9

Oh this is going to be a scientist's wet dream. Just on the radio this AM I heard proposals for zillions of mirrors being put into orbit to reflect the suns rays back into space, so the humorous aspects are the main thing I'm looking forward to.

Answer 10

yes there are a couple "upsides" to global warming...
First...climate change... the average temp will raise, causing ice caps to melt..ect...but the upside is alot of areas that used to see alot of snow, wont anymore.

Second...world population will go down...the rising of our oceans will cause alot of death and destruction across the globe, helping the worlds over population problems

the thing that alot people fail to realize..the planet Earth is like a living entity, and alot like humans, it will try to repair what is wrong with itself...the planet earth has a parasite problem, called, the human race, as we continually harm the planet, the planet will try to heal itself...global warming is another attempt of the earth to rid itself of the vermin that infects it....just like you cant stop you body from creating anti-bodies to rid itself of influenza, global warming, cannot be stopped.

Answer 11

Absolutely! For individuals smart enough to exploit the irrational fear that the pseudo science has fomented, there are fortunes to be made.