Is Global Warming an actual bad thing?

Question

I know that some out there who think the midwest is simply flyover country and Global Warming has been caused by the evil Republicans. But, can someone explain why having a shorter and warmer winter is such a bad thing? I have lived through too many cold and ugly winters and am puzzled why some think global warming is such a bad thing? Also can it be proven conclusively that Global warming even is happening? What will be the next great cause be? Global Cooling? Sorry, it's called "Winter". To all the Lefty nutjobs out there, prove to me why Global warming in the midwestern United States is Bad!!!!!

Answer 1

Exactly. Global warming is a political issue. You will believe in it more if you are a socialist, and less if you are an individualist.

Why is warming bad? Longer growing season for crops, less need for heating fuel, more disposable income, larger growing area. After all, we're only talking 1 deg over the last 100 years.

Warmth is good for life. The clod kills far more people than any warmth does.

No one can prove "global warming" is real. This is why they have to use qualifiers like "probably", "likely", "could", "may", "believe" when they describe "global warming".

This is why they need a "consensus" rather than facts to argue their point.

No one can tell you if it will be warmer or cooler 5 years from now, and show you how they came to that conclusion. Global warming is nothing more than a collective guess.

Answer 2

It's very simple. Global warming is a political issue, not a scientific one. And people like Al Gore will lie all day long about it and then fly off in a private jet, using 25 times more energy and CO2 than any of us. It's sad that so much money is pushing this hoax, but luckily as time goes on more and more see the truth and can see through the lies. Just reading a few science books will completely blow up the "man-made global warming" myth.

Climate changes are normal.

The ice caps melt and refreeze all the time.

Polar bears are increasing in numbers, not dying off.

The bottom line is that historically periods of warming are better for life on the planet than the periods of cooling. So enjoy the warm times while they last. We may go back into another cooling period in the next decade or two. We were in a cooling period from the 40's until the late 70's and we didn't go into an ice age as these same "scientists" predicted back then.

Answer 3

The fact that you have resorted to terms like "lefty nutjobs" and have related a global question to the midwestern US displays what is wrong with your thinking.
Global warming will, as the terms implies, have global effects and as humans we should be concerned about the whole world and all humanity, not just the midwest of the US. Furthermore, whilst in every region there will be short term benefits these will be more than outweighed by the disadvantages because, unless we act quickly, the changes will occur faster than our ability to adapt. There will be huge population evacuations from flooded areas to other areas (are you ready to welcome the evacuees in the midwest?) and new waves of pests and diseases that we are not ready for. I hope you wise up soon.

Answer 4

Anytime a change to an ecosystem happens there are changes. Yes some types of plants and animals may benefit. Whenever you change an animal or plants surroundings normally two things happen, they die out or flourish. Take the cane toad. It was spread to different parts of the world where it over populated driving many other animals near extinction, because its unnatural to the environment (because people helped spread it to areas) it lacks predictors. There are all kinds of possibilities, animals and plans to do very well. If your in the school of "its getting hotter" or "its getting colder" either change would have its benefits to a localized ecosystem and a global one. Another good example of people changing the environment and something really doing well would be the peppered moths. They theorize trees because of the CO2 became darker, thus darker moths blended in better. CO2 in an area was reduced over time trees got lighter and then lighter color moths did better. Of course like everything else there is always a controversy and politics play a side in every coin flipped. Regardless changes effect things, good and bad, for better for worse.

Answer 5

depends on where you are ,
If the sea rises and you live on the coast it will be bad ,
if you are in Canada it may seem great when you can grow tomatoes there .

At the moment in Chiapas and Tabasco in Mexico more than a million people right now have water coming to the roofs ,their whole world is under the water ,And this has never happened there before .

Millions have lost their homes and all of the agriculture and live stock .
crocodiles ,which are abundant in this area ,are scavenging the dead animals .
all due to super evaporation from the forests due to Global warming .the clouds did not come from the seas .
they are not so happy with Global Warming.

Answer 6

I think that is highly debatable. I know the environmentalists say it is, but they always say stuff like that. The climate scientists seem to think the the weather will be less mild with a warmer climate, but they can't really say how much more severe. And I am not even convinced they are able to correctly say that. After all, they can't even tell me if it will rain next week!

But sea level rising from melting glaciers could be expensive if it floods enough coastal land, especially cities. However, the sea level is now about as low as it has ever been in the last 250 million years. So it was going to go up anyway eventually, but maybe in a million years instead of 100 years.

Answer 7

A member of our research group asked her brother to answer your question about the impact of global warming--good vs. bad. He is an engineer, scientist and consults on environmental issues. He suggests that the vast majority of scientists say that Global Warming will be about 20% good and 80% bad.

The good includes: warmer winters in the areas away from the equator and more areas open for agriculture.

The bad includes rising seas, more frequent and more violent storms and changing weather patterns.

There will be more hurricanes like Katrina and crazy weather like this year's droughts in Georgia and the Southeast at the same time that there were record floods a few hundred miles west in Texas.

Every night the news has more stories of floods, droughts and fires. There will be more of these as time goes on.

Hope this helps.

Answer 8

You (and many others) need to look beyond your own little corner of the world before trying to work out the nuances of Global Warming, or Climate Change.
There is a world out there beyond the USA.

Answer 9

Oh, no. It's a totally good, normal thing that hurricanes are happening in November and there have been more Category 5 hurricanes that there have ever been before, that the ice that has previously been in greenland, the north pole, and antarctica for millenia are melting, and shall cause mass floods and wetter weather in the near future. Oh, yeah, that major three-month-long drought we just had is totally normal. Don't mind it. Not at all.

For you dodos out there, that was sarcasm. Duh.

P.S. Use CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lights), LED's, and energy star stuff to save electricity- and the planet.

Answer 10

I wish people would stop phrasing their global warming questions to "lefty nutjobs", and using other childish insults like that. It makes it very difficult to take you seriously. Particularly since a great many conservatives (Bush, Gingrich, Sarkozy, Giuliani, McCain, Romney, Huckabee, and Brownback just to name a few prominent ones) acknowledge the reality of human-caused global warming.

For starters, it's called global warming - not midwestern USA warming. If you only care about the effects on the midwestern USA, then your perspective is rather self-centered.

Secondly, global warming has many adverse effects besides the average temperature increase. Global warming causes global climate change which causes things like increased numbers of droughts, heat waves, water shortages, food shortages, floods, stronger hurricanes, etc. etc. Sea levels will continue to rise as land ice melts, displacing millions of people living along coastlines.

All of these things will take a massive toll on global economies, so if nothing else it will effect your wallet.

And yes, global warming is happening. You can see it quite obviously here:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2005/ann/global-blended-temp-pg.gif

Please do yourself a favor and take some time to learn about the science behind global warming. From someone other than Rush Limbaugh, please.