Bully for Global Warming and a Warmer Climate

Climategate? - Warmergate? The truth about many of the scientists behind the global warming hoax has finally arrived. It's the Piltdown hoax (1912) of the 21st century—big deal. It’s meaningless anyway because of two facts. First, There are at least ten factors known to affect climate more than atmospheric CO2. Altogether, they make the CO2 effect virtually meaningless. Second It’s so easy to see that a warmer climate benefits all life on Earth a six ear old could understand it.

Another thing! Aren’t the global warming fanatics looking at it backwards? Don’t they have one very important fact upside down? Despite all that has been said on both sides, Anthropogenic Global Warming, if it were real and its effect substantial, could be the best thing to happen to Earth in many millennia and infinitely more good than bad. If they knew this, would the doomsayers of global warming ever mention it? Of course not. It would immediately derail their gravy train.

In fact, global warming of any kind is infinitely beneficial to virtually all kinds of life on the planet. A simple proof: how much vegetation grows on Greenland now? How much vegetation (and all the fauna it supports) will grow there when the climate warms enough to melt all the ice. Think Michigan during the ice age with a mile of ice covering the entire state and look at it now. There is no arguing with those facts by anyone but a complete idiot. (synonym for liberal)

It is obvious that in the bigger picture and over the long range, global warming would be quite advantageous for life on earth, even humans. The benefits would far outweigh the losses. It would certainly be a lot better than another ice age. Of that there is no doubt. So I say, quit wringing your hands and crying of doom. Global warming just could be one of the best things to happen since the last ice age ended.

Burn that oil. Burn that coal. Pump out that CO2! Let’s heat up the planet and head for the beaches. How about palm trees in Labrador, oak forests in northern Alaska or a seaside villa on the warm shores of Greenland? Sounds pretty great to me.

While there will definitely be many winners, there are bound to be a few losers. Sorry, New York and LA, but you’ll have to move a bit inland like quite a few other coastal habitats. I’m really sorry about Florida, but no change is ever all good. Besides, the lush semi tropical shores of Labrador will be habitat for former Florida flora and fauna while the lowlands of Georgia, the Carolinas, and the rest of the southern states all the way to the West Coast will be lush tropical paradises. That’s certainly a much prettier picture than that painted by the doom sayers of the church of horrible global warming. I’d certainly like to hear a response from some of their members. Al, Eat your heart out!

The one glaring error the believers in detrimental global warming make is that it is detrimental. The fact is it would be almost entirely beneficial to mankind and to all life on the planet, and substantially so. Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news. Up to a point, the warmer our planet gets, the more life it supports and the more variety that life has. The cooler, the less life and the fewer species. All fossil records support that reality as far back as the Permian period, 500 million + years ago.

We have very good evidence that a warmer earth has far more benefits than negatives. For obvious reasons, global warming advocates never consider that very significant fact. It is well known from several sciences including botany, zoology, and paleontology that most all life has fared much better during warm periods on the planet than during colder periods. The amount and diversity of life were severely diminished during the ice ages, expanded as the glaciers receded, and were much greater during periods warmer than the present. As the borders between tropical weather and temperate as well as temperate and arctic on our planet move toward the polar regions, the number and variety of life increases as temperate areas gave way to tropical and arctic gave way to temperate. This is a well-established fact.

Just compare the number and variety of life as it now exists in the tropics, in the temperate zone, and in the arctic. Imagine what would happen if the tropics expanded and the arctic zone shrunk. Would that be beneficial to life or detrimental? Obviously it would be beneficial. I’ll wager few people ever even considered that fact.

A case in point in human experience: The Vikings established a thriving community of farms, villages and churches in Greenland that lasted for at least 500 years during the medieval warm period that was somewhat warmer than today. There is even evidence they established colonies in North America (Vinland?) during the same period. Then, when the “little ice age” happened and arctic weather moved south over Greenland, they starved and disappeared leaving their fields, homes and churches where they stood. Greenland has for all practical purposes never been resettled.

Suppose the worst claimed by the gurus of global warming actually happened and sea levels rose a hundred feet. At the same time the tropics would expand 500 to 1,000 miles, and the temperate zones would move poleward about the same distance, Should this happen, huge areas of Canada and Siberia, among others, would become much more hospitable to life of many kinds—temperate forests and fertile farmlands. Since it is well known that warmer periods brought wetter weather patterns, many deserts would become lush and green. Talk about a green revolution—that would be a real one! Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas valleys could become tropical jungles. The same could happen to the deserts: the Sahara, the Gobi, and even the Australian. Wouldn't that be a kick? Who knows, Greenland might even become green and habitable. One thing for sure, the Arctic ocean would become an open shipping lane. The overall benefit to life on the planet would be huge. So we would lose some land and a few cities along the coast and many islands would shrink or disappear, big deal! Since it would happen gradually, the people and much of their property could easily be moved elsewhere.

Oh yes, the polar bears and penguins. Those cute little birds and those big, soft and cuddly bears so painted by the brush of the media to appeal to children. Actually they are both predators (as are we humans, even children). Penguins kill and eat millions of poor little fishes, and polar bears? They kill and eat many seal pups every year. Just think of those poor, cute little seal pups being brutally slaughtered and eaten. Also, they would gladly kill and eat you if given the opportunity and they were hungry. Of course, they much prefer tasty seal pups. Should the planet warm substantially, the environment of their habitat would change and they would probably go extinct. Sad, isn’t it?

Of course the expanded tropics would become habitats for many individuals of hundreds of new species, many just as lovable as penguins and polar bears. Think more cute little monkeys and colorful new birds in lush jungles teeming with life. Think also about the manatees, armadillos, big cats, alligators, crocodiles, snakes, lizards, spiders, and thousands of other creatures you never see in the arctic. They would be found in countless numbers in temperate areas that replace arctic tundra and permafrost as well as in the tropics that replace temperate areas. Compare those habitats with the cold bleak arctic of snow and ice and maybe one creature in hundreds of square miles.

And how about this for you or me, a sunny, warm beach with palm trees and colorful birds compared with a frigid, windswept snowy plain. Or even farmland on ground once covered with a mile of ice in Greenland. That same ice once covered almost all of Canada and most of the northern United States and Europe. Global warming removed that ice and turned that land into woods, farms, vineyards, and varied wild habitat? Considering those known and obvious facts does global warming seem so terrible now?

Remember those foreboding warnings about nuclear winter, with the cold killing everything? How about the same thing caused by volcanic eruptions or a huge meteor strike. Contrast that with a CO2 summer where the arctic ice melts and everything gets warmer. Palm trees on Labrador, temperate forests on Greenland and tropical rivers crossing the Sahara. Long range, that is what global warming would produce. It has in the past and will in the future.

After realizing these facts, maybe Al Gore will write a new book titled, “A Beautiful Truth” that will tell the facts about global warming. Oh, but that just wouldn’t work with his liberal agenda, would it? The new American politics trumps facts, science, and all other forms of truth. Shades of the old Soviet Union.