This touches on what I have wondered about.
Even if, for sake of argument, we say that global warming is real, why do we say that all effects of it are bad?
For example, the American midwest is a very productive agricultural region. But they have severe winters and a relatively short growing season. Wouldn’t a touch of global warming give them a longer growing season, and make their agriculture even more productive?
I’ve mentioned this to some global warming believers, and get blank stares. I get the impression that some of these liberals are spoon fed certain things, and just can’t think for themselves when confronted with a concept such as I just mentioned.
ditto with vast areas of Canada, Russia and China
And do all these climate-change Henny Pennies know what the ideal temperature of the earth should be? How was that ideal temperature determined? Based on what? And if we achieve temperature nirvana, how do we know that the climate won’t change for other reasons?
I recently did panel discussion with some people about climate change. I couldn’t even get to the point that I doubt the data before one person on the panel was saying “real climate scientists ALL agree...” Sigh. When the Soviet Union fell apart, all the temp monitoring locations in Siberia were no longer maintained. All the temp data was never adjusted for losing those stations. So, IMHO, the data are suspect. Yet, one guy on the panel just *knew* climate change is real and we’ve got to do SOMETHING NOW!
It is a major uphill battle to convince the sheep that climate change is a bunch of BS designed to scare them and accept increasing government intervention in their daily lives.
Texas could use some cooler weather. There were more than 100 days of 100+ temperatures last summer. Tomatoes won’t produce when temperatures rise above 90. Want to pay my A/C bill? Higher temps mean more evaporation from livestock tanks so ranchers have to sell off their stock. Crops can’t be irrigated. People’s water supply is gone which affects not just drinking water but general cleaning and flushing the toilet. With little or no water, business close, house foundations crack, trees fall causing damage, dry and dead brush is a wildfire waiting to happen.