On a serious note, if global warming were, in fact, a fact, would that necessarily be a bad thing? It seems like we might be able to grow more crops, and save on heating oil, and snowplows and all of that. Animals will adapt or die out; that’s happened forever. New animals will take their place. People who like to burn fossil fuels cruising in Alaska to look at glaciers will have to do something else for entertainment.
They are now calling it climate change, but hasnt climate change been a constant since the beginning of the earth?
Savings in heating oil might well be offset by electricity usage for air-conditioning. I knew a kid who wanted his house 68 in the summer and 78 in the winter. He wasn’t paying for the power to do those things.
If the sea rose ten feet and most of the coastal seaports were under water, would the GDP go up or down? And how much would it cost to abandon those cities and rebuild farther up the rivers? Would we miss most of Florida?
March 1st, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I don’t miss it. Fortunately, with all this global warming I keep hearing about, it should be a thing of the past pretty soon.
March 1st, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Is there some way we can accelerate global warming? I want ten degrees right now, not a few degrees over the next century.
March 1st, 2011 at 4:38 pm
I suspect, alas, it is going to get colder, not warmer )-:
March 1st, 2011 at 5:04 pm
On a serious note, if global warming were, in fact, a fact, would that necessarily be a bad thing? It seems like we might be able to grow more crops, and save on heating oil, and snowplows and all of that. Animals will adapt or die out; that’s happened forever. New animals will take their place. People who like to burn fossil fuels cruising in Alaska to look at glaciers will have to do something else for entertainment.
They are now calling it climate change, but hasnt climate change been a constant since the beginning of the earth?
March 1st, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Where I live used to be an ocean. And before that it was a 20 feet under snow. Yes, climate changes!
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Savings in heating oil might well be offset by electricity usage for air-conditioning. I knew a kid who wanted his house 68 in the summer and 78 in the winter. He wasn’t paying for the power to do those things.
If the sea rose ten feet and most of the coastal seaports were under water, would the GDP go up or down? And how much would it cost to abandon those cities and rebuild farther up the rivers? Would we miss most of Florida?
March 2nd, 2011 at 5:33 pm
If the sea rose 10′ in 500 years, I doubt I’d care about the GDP.
But if you do, indeed, care about the GDP, you might want to cut the debt, spending and over involvement of the government in our economy.
Those are the real crises.