Can anyone give me ideas as to why global warming is a good thing?

Question

E.g. Cities like Montreal won't have any more snowstorms and will be warm all year round.

Answer 1

With the temperatures Global Warming would bring to Montreal there'll be no one around to complain about the weather.

Answer 2

Plants thrive in higher temps

Less deaths in general due to weather (more die due to cold than heat).

Longer growing season. More food production.

Less heating bills

Warmer nights

Less harsh winters

The list goes on and on. No many down sides if you take out all the lies.

Answer 3

Plants grow more abundant when the climate is warm... thus creating more food for every species including humans.

Saves on energy bill by not turning on the heater to warm your home.  

People are generally more up beat when the sun is out than the bitter cold.

Boost local economies for tourism on the coastal cities.

I can go on but if I do I would get thumbs down and or reported... for essentially telling the truth.

Answer 4

You wouldn't be here without it ?

Answer 5

There are benefits to global warming. Fewer deaths to the cold and cold-induced illnesses is an obvious one. In the case of CO2, it makes plants grow better with less watering needed, so that's a good thing. It makes large areas of the planet inhabitable that previously were not, but it also makes parts of it too hot. With technology and energy you can remedy too much heat much more readily than you can stop an incoming glacier. It may also be nice since we're due for the return of the ice age at any time. Longer growing seasons and more farmland isn't a bad thing.

As was stated before, without greenhouse gases causing global warming, the temp would be about 33C degrees cooler, making life here impossible for humans.

We are very unlikely to see temp rising by more than 1 or 2C degrees in the next century or longer. The Earth is a very complex system and much of the CO2 we produce gets absorbed before it can cause warming. We should still move away from using oil for energy and eliminate pollution but it's not an end-of-the-world situation as some claim. The funny thing is the charts the IPCC uses started measuring temp not long after the end of the Little Ice Age so it's obvious that some of the warming was completely natural and a good thing.

Troy, global warming hasn't continued or didn't you know that? The warmest year on record is still 1998 and that was largely due to ocean currents, not the atmosphere. And there has been no increase of tropical storms, hurricanes or tornadoes as predicted by the IPCC, and no rise in sea levels either. If you mean polar bears might become extinct due to warming, they did survive the last 800,000 years or so, which included several ice ages and warmer interglacial periods than we're likely to see anytime soon. Global warming isn't going to kill us all, but a crackpot solution to a non-problem might do the trick.

Sara-Lee. I don't see how Iceland can melt, it's an island not made of ice. The glaciers on Greenland are melting but it will take a very long time for them to melt away. The ice at the South Pole is getting thicker, other than a small area on the eastern side of Antarctica.

Answer 6

London will be flooded so every ignorant a*****e there dies.

Answer 7

IT'S NOT GOOD!

Global warming -- a gradual increase in planet-wide temperatures -- is now well documented and accepted by scientists as fact. A panel convened by the U.S National Research Council, the nation's premier science policy body, in June 2006 voiced a "high level of confidence" that Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, and possibly even the last 2,000 years. Studies indicate that the average global surface temperature has increased by approximately 0.5-1.0°F (0.3-0.6°C) over the last century. This is the largest increase in surface temperature in the last 1,000 years and scientists are predicting an even greater increase over this century. This warming is largely attributed to the increase of greenhouse gases (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) in the Earth's upper atmosphere caused by human burning of fossil fuels, industrial, farming, and deforestation activities.

Average global temperatures may increase by 1.4-5.8ºC (that's 2.5 - 10.4º F) by the end of the 21st century. Although the numbers sound small, they can trigger significant changes in climate. (The difference between global temperatures during an Ice Age and an ice-free period is only about 5ºC.) Besides resulting in more hot days, many scientists believe an increase in temperatures may lead to changes in precipitation and weather patterns. Warmer ocean water may result in more intense and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes. Sea levels are also expected to increase by 0.09 - 0.88 m. in the next century, mainly from melting glaciers and expanding seawater . Global warming may also affect wildlife and species that cannot survive in warmer environments may become extinct. Finally, human health is also at stake, as global warming may result in the spreading of certain diseases such as malaria, the flooding of major cities, a greater risk of heat stroke for individuals, and poor air quality.

Climate change is very likely having an impact now on our planet and its life, according to the latest installment of a report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And the future problems caused by rising seas, growing deserts, and more frequent droughts all look set to affect the developing world more than rich countries, they add. The report is the second chapter of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment -- the most comprehensive summary yet of research into the causes and effects of climate change. To read more, visit Effects of climate change tallied up.

Factors

Greenhouse Gases

The increase in greenhouse gases caused by human activity is often cited as one of the major causes of global warming. These greenhouse gases reabsorb heat reflected from the Earth's surface, thus trapping the heat in our atmosphere. This natural process is essential for life on Earth because it plays an important role in regulating the Earth's temperature. However, over the last several hundred years, humans have been artificially increasing the concentration of these gases, mainly carbon dioxide and methane in the Earth's atmosphere. These gases build up and prevent additional thermal radiation from leaving the Earth, thereby trapping excess heat.

Solar Variability & Global Warming

Some uncertainty remains about the role of natural variations in causing climate change. Solar variability certainly plays a minor role, but it looks like only a quarter of the recent variations can be attributed to the Sun. At most. During the initial discovery period of global warming, the magnitude of the influence of increased activity on the Sun was not well determined.

Solar irradiance changes have been measured reliably by satellites for only 30 years. These precise observations show changes of a few tenths of a percent that depend on the level of activity in the 11-year solar cycle. Changes over longer periods must be inferred from other sources. Estimates of earlier variations are important for calibrating the climate models. While a component of recent global warming may have been caused by the increased solar activity of the last solar cycle, that component was very small compared to the effects of additional greenhouse gases. According to a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) press release, "...the solar increases do not have the ability to cause large global temperature increases...greenhouse gases are indeed playing the dominant role..." The Sun is once again less bright as we approach solar minimum, yet global warming continues.

GLOBAL WARMING HAS TO STOP BEFORE WE ALL DIE.

HUMANS MADE THIS MESS AND HUMANS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN CLEAN IT UP!

Answer 8

I was just going for some hobbies-tic research on global warming and this is what I found:

Global warming is a natural phase of Earth, caused by some Solar Activities by Sun. We human don't have to bother about it. Some of the environmentalist says that this is because of the CO2 we are emitting into the environment, but the reality is that we are just contributing towards 1% to 10% of actual global warming.

If the actual cause of Global Warming is CO2 emitted by the humans then why Global Warming occures on other planets. Just Google for "Global Warming on other planets" and see the results, there are no humans on other planets.

Having too little CO2 in the environment will cause for the plants to die more early, more over it also cools down the temperature on earth.

Having too much CO2 (obiviously, not caused by humans. Mostly generated in the Sea/Oceans) will lead to Green House effect and will lead in increasing the temperature on Earth.

So, the best is to plant more trees so that there would be a balance for the consumption of CO2 on the planet.

So, next time whenever somebody says you about global warming, just ignore it.

Answer 9

Global warming is a bunch of fake c**p made up by fat old Al gore. Duh people don't you have a mind. AL GORE WANTS ATTENTION!! And so does the media, that is how they make money!!!! And the glaciers ARE NOT MELTING you idiots!!!!!!!!! They are growing at a rate larger than the world has ever seen LOOK IT UP!!!! Al gore and the news made it all up. 4/5 of the worlds enviromenatlist don't belive in global warming!! So Al gore talks about how we need to stop "global warming" and hten he flys off in his private jet haha and i almost forgot he also goes in his 10 million dollar mantsion with all the electricity hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Answer 10

It is a lot better then a ice age.

Answer 11

It's not a good thing at all. Iceland is melting and so is Antarctica. If Iceland alone half melts the whole coastline of Beijing will be drowned, the whole of Manhattan, most of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Then eventually, when it all melts, it will refreeze again and we will have another Ice age in TEN years time.