[Question Liberal Authority]

Record snowstorms need two things: temperatures below freezing, and very high humidity. On a planet warmer by a few degrees on average, the Northeast US will still have plenty of days below freezing; the big difference will be warmer seas producing higher levels of moisture in the air — and therefore more severe cold-season storms.

Then how are the Polar Ice Caps going to melt? I thought that was the big problem with global warming - the ice caps melt and the oceans rise and pretty much every place within 50 miles of the beach is underwater.

The rest of global warming - longer growing season, more diverse plant life - ought to be a good thing, right?

[ichabod1]

It IS a good thing.

Fact: More heat good. Cheap food, strong middle class.

Fact: More cold, bad. Plague and starvation.