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Global warming is good for you!

Here are two stories that illustrate why we shouldn’t be in a panic over climate change. Though it is important to study the climate and to learn as much as we can about it, it is at this time inappropriate to impose draconian regulations on the world’s populations so that whole economies are destroyed out of fear of climate change. We just don’t know enough about the consequences of climate change. Global warming might even be beneficial!

First, from Nature this story: Global warming wilts malaria. It appears that the assumption that warmer climates would increase malaria epidemics is completely wrong. Instead, warmer temperatures act to hinder the survival of the malaria parasite in mosquitoes.

Simon Hay, an expert in malarial epidemiology at the University of Oxford, UK, who in 2010 reported a scant correlation between malaria and global warming, says that the study could have wide significance, if the results can be extended to human malaria. Rising temperatures “may well contribute to the host of other changes that have occurred during the last 100 years that have caused malaria to contract in extent and intensity globally,” he says. [emphasis mine]

Then, there’s this quote from an article published last week which took a close look at what the IPCC reports have actually said about the consequences of global warming:

Because more people almost everywhere on the planet die each year from cold temperatures than from warm temperatures, the overall impact of global warming will be fewer deaths from temperature extremes. Indeed, according to one estimate, by mid-century, about 400,000 more people will die from heat than would have perished at current temperatures, but 1.8 million fewer people will die from cold. Unfortunately, non-deaths are a non-story.

In other words, cooling is much more dangerous to the world’s population than warming. The article also pointed out that if you dig down into the IPCC reports, you find that the future is not as gloomy as the doomsayers try to make it out to be, should the climate warm. And, having spent the time to actually read the IPCC reports, I can confirm that this conclusion is true.

In summary, we know the Earth has warmed since the 1700s, though there remain serious disagreements and questions about how much and at what rate, especially during the past 150 years. What we don’t know yet is why. Though human activity could have contributed to this warming, so could the sun. Moreover, the climate is complex, and there are many factors that could contribute to these temperature trends that are not understood.

Not knowing the whole climate story means we really don’t yet know what will happen next. However, if the climate is warming, it behooves us to look carefully at the real consequences of that warming. Sadly, few have done so. Instead, the focus has been on “We’re all gonna die!” scenarios, most of which are not backed up by any real data.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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2 comments

  • jwing

    I must take note of your title, “Global Warming Is Good For You” for the above blurb. I defer from using the term “global warming” as its use impliesits de facto legitimacy, however questionable. The facts we know are that the earth is still coming out of the last ice age, ergo, warming up, and the last 150 years showing elevated recorded temperatures support this. What is not supported by the empicical evidence is any man-made influence due to CO2.
    The Left continually controls the arguement by defining and tweeking the vocabulary; hence, the ecology movement becomes the environmentalism, global warming becomes climate change, and environmental protection becomes economic sustainability. By using their predetermined words, one is automatically placed in the position of disproving their pop-culture status memes.
    I end with this point: If increasing CO2 levels (industrial or natural) truly cause climactic temperature increases, then the geologic record over the eons should easily correlate known ice ages comings and goings with the prerequisite increasing CO2 levels. The fact is, there is no such evidence of any long term historic correlation in the geologic record. CASE CLOSED and theory disproven until otherwise shown contrary. Why is this rational, scientific logic evident? Because this is not about science or the scietific method; it is purely about money, prestige, ego and that nasty economic dialectic theory as to whether capitalism will evolve into communism on a global scale.

  • J i dont think communism on a global scale is possible so I am not very worried . also I am doubtful it is possible for us to control the climate of our planet

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