What is the up side to global warming.?

Answer 1

Longer growing season.
Fewer deaths from influenza.

Answer 2

It is easy to see who the suck-ups are and who is using it to further their own career. For instance:

Revised Temp Data Reduces Global Warming Fever ---

By Marc Sheppard --- The American Thinker Blog --- 9 August 07

1998 was not the hottest US year ever. Nor was 2006 the runner up.

Sure, had you checked NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
website just days ago, you would have thought so, but not today. You see,
thanks to the efforts of Steve McIntyre over at
http://www.climatea udit.org/ , the Surface Air Temperature Anomaly charts for
those and many other years have been revised - predominately down.

Why?

It's a wild and technical story of compromised weather stations and hack
computer algorithms (including, get this - a latent Y2K bug) and those
wishing to read the fascinating details should follow ALL of the links I've
provided. But, simply stated, McIntyre not only proved the error of the
calculations used to interpret the data from the 1000 plus US Historical
Climatology Network (USHCN) weather stations feeding GISS, but also the
cascading effect of that error on past data.

You see, as Warren Meyer over at Coyoteblog.com (whose recent email
expressed a delight we share in the irony of this correction taking place
the week of the Gore / Newsweek story) points out:

"One of the interesting aspects of these temperature data bases is that
they do not just use the raw temperature measurements from each station.
Both the NOAA (which maintains the USHCN stations) and the GISS apply many
layers of adjustments. "

It was the gross folly of these "fudge factors" McIntyre challenged NASA on.
And won.

Today, not only have the charts and graphs been modified, but the GISS
website includes this acknowledgement that:

"the USHCN station records up to 1999 were replaced by a version of
USHCN data with further corrections after an adjustment computed by
comparing the common 1990-1999 period of the two data sets. (We wish to
thank Stephen McIntyre for bringing to our attention that such an adjustment
is necessary to prevent creating an artificial jump in year 2000.)"

But, as only the Gorebots actually believe the hype that recent year to year
temperature shifts are somehow proof of anthropogenic global warming, why is
this significant?

As explained by Noel Sheppard over at Newsbusters:

"One of the key tenets of the global warming myth being advanced by
[GISS head James] Hansen and soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore is that nine of the ten
warmest years in history have occurred since 1995."

Additionally, as broken by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show this afternoon,
Reuters is now reporting in a piece entitled Scientists predict surge in
global warming after 2009 that:

"A study forecasts that global warming will set in with a vengeance
after 2009, with at least half of the five following years expected to be
hotter than 1998, which was the warmest year on record."

As so deftly observed by El Rushbo, who wonders how long NASA has been aware
of the errors, many greenies have spread their nonsense using 1998's bogus
distinction to generate angst amongst the weak-minded.

Yet - thanks to a Blogging Scientist -- that's all changed now - check the
newly revised GISS table.

1934 is now the hottest, and 3 others from the 1930's are in the top 10.
Furthermore, only 3 (not 9) took place since 1995 (1998, 1999, and 2006).
The years 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 are now below the year 1900 and no longer
even in the top 20.

So, we're not really on a roller-coaster to hell, then?

Of course, eco-maniacs will argue that it's the global readings that count,
not those of the USA alone. Nuts to that. It's nearly impossible to
believe that when put to similar close scrutiny, global mechanisms will
stand the heat any better than ours.

Besides, as GISS hosts the reference database of choice for all manner of
enviro-mental- cases, one would think such a significant content correction
itself would spark huge news and greenie-card reevaluation, right?

Well -- as Noel asked and answered his readers:

"Think this will be Newsweek's next cover-story? No, I don't either."

Perfect.

Answer 3

There is no upside. Now that GWB has the 250 megawatt weather machine and it is, in fact, mounted on an official George Lucas Imperial Star Destroyer, the entire planet should turn into tapioca pudding, cous cous, tofu, and molten lava. Lynn Wooseley and Babs Bwaxa were too late to save us from their own political ends and they did nothing to stop the Nazis. Lynn was just in the Marin County County House to trying to obtain tax dollars to spend on a pork barrel train that would run from Santa Rosa, CA to Peacock Gap, CA. It would carry 56 government employees each day and cost over 79.8 million dollars per year and save the Earth from global warming. It failed because Darth Cheney shot out the tracks near McInnis Park using his Ford TIE Fighter (with bucket seats, extended cab, A/C, Twin Cummins Hemi-Ion Drives, 370 Watt Bose Stereo System wif da BOOMER, Giggle Gas, On-Star, Google-Earth, Leopold Scopes, and Winchester Ammo). He was playing "Angry Chair" by Alice in Chains at the time. This is a direct quote from a Marin County Sheriff, so do not give me a thumbs down you beslubbering, elf-skinned, mugworts!! ts

Answer 4

Well, if humans keep on doing what they're doing, they'll eventually cause so much climate change through global warming they'll wipe out their civilazation. Then all the other species on the planet can get backall the habitat they've had taken from them and get back to living normal lives.

Of course, thehumans might not like that--but if they wern't so stupid they would have bettter sense than to engage in self-destructive behavior. No other species does!

:)

Answer 5

Global warming may or may not be a fact. But one thing that is not proven is that it is man caused. The globe has transitioned through more than one ice age, therefore there must have been global warming. There were no industry or superpowers then to blame. But guess what we are still here and we will be despite what Al Gore says.

Answer 6

The people of Siberia might actually thaw out... or grow a crop other than snow cones... The dire predictions of gloom and doom are nothing more than scare tactics to get control of your lives... *NO ONE* knows with any certainty what will happen... More important there is *ABSOLUTELY NOTHING* that can be done about it.... Humans, in total, contribute much less that 10% of the common green house gases like CO2 or methane... and *those* 2 gases contrubute very much than 10% of all green house gasses. Over 90% of the green house effect is caused by water vapor which human kind contrubutes ZEERO.... So one would have to *COMPLETELY ELIMINATE* mankind to even make a small change in the greenhouse effect... no thank you!

Answer 7

Hmm upside
well if you get past the more hurricanes, having to relocate crops flooding in countries like Nauru, more cases of lyme desease, droughts, smoggy air, and food shortages, longer summers maybe you might not get snow anymore

Answer 8

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)

If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS -- Earth First! Newsletter

Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets...Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. -- David Graber, biologist, National Park Service

The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans. -- Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project

If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." -- Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995

ALL USEFUL IDIOTS of GREEN PARTY
Wrong Again

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. -- Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)

The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer -- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 -- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion -- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)

This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century -- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it. -- Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

Answer 9

As far as Russia is concerned, it means their new claim on parts of the North Pole can now be exploited for MORE gas and oil because it is now accessable, and now the Danes and Canadians are getting into the act as well for the same reasons.
All this so they can pump more of the same crap that created this mess to begin with and you can be sure the US will get their cut as well, but they will do it diffeently, they'll invade someone to steal theirs!

Answer 10

The hippies will get so hot they will finally have to thank Adolf Hitler for making Dr. Porsche add A/C to their groovy VWs. Oh wow man....have another hit......of fresh air!!!!

Answer 11

More people die from the effects of bitter winter temperatures than hot summer temperatures. Thus, it's possible we would have less temperature related deaths. IPCC scientists predict that most of the warming will occur at night and during the winter (exactly when it's needed the most).