What are the pros and cons of global warming?

Question

I am doing a research speech, and, quite frankly, I can not possibly see any pros to global warming besides getting a good tan. Please help me with the pros to global warming, and if you have any cons that are besides the obvious extinction and/or melting of glaciers, those would be fine, too. thanks.

Answer 1

there are really no cons

i mean

its getting so hot that the water in Alaska is turning darker blue

there for attracting the sun more

there for making it so that ice bergs melt

so many polar bears are dying and drowning because they cant rest on ice

and that breaks my heart

our future generations

we're totally s******g it up for them if we don't not act and take action

they're are so many harmful consequences to this global warming

i guess you can say its bring us together to slow down the process and try to resolve it

but to many people are making excuses and ain't taking action

the time is now and we need to band together and making a change

global warming is real

it is happening

and we gotta do some thing about it

it kinda of offends me in a way that people can think of pros in this situation

we cant sugar coat this

we gotta do some thing

Answer 2

well some pros that i found on the internet were no more snow to shovel in the winter and warm summer evenings

Cons people are dying of the heat because of not being prepared

Answer 3

There are some pros for global warming, but they are likely to be short lived. The more northern and southern regions of the globe will benefit from warmer and wetter climates.... it is likely the tropics that will (and are) feeling the worst of the impact. We will have higher crop yields, be able to grow grapes and suffer less from cold health issues. However, the dreaded mosquito is also likely to move north to the bite us all.

Countries that depend on glacier melt will have more water in their rivers..... but only until the glaciers have melted. In summer, there will then be no water for irrigation, hydro power generation or for drinking / sanitation purposes. Industry depending on the river water will also be affected/closed.

The worst downside of global warming is the threat of conflict. As food gets short (crop yields decrease and current arable land becomes to dry to grow crops on) and water is also no longer a resource available to all, countires will move into conflict. Darfur is claimed to be the first of many climate change conflicts.

Another big threat of climate change is population movement. Up to 1 billion people who live in river deltas would have to move to new areas on higher ground... mass population movement as never seen before.

Answer 4

A few days ago, in a tiny newspaper article, the Center for Disease Control out of Atlanta Georgia noted that the next few decades will prove hazardous to infants and the elderly, because the climate change will cause more of these higher risk groups to suffer from heat related illnesses.

Answer 5

The opening up of the northwest passage to reduce shipping costs is one advantage. Enabling northern countries that have been too cold before to grow more crops. Arthritic people generally hate the cold. Our roads will be safer in the "winter" with less ice on them. More animal life thrives in a warmer climate than a colder one. There will be more fishing in the now iceless seas which is healthier for us.There will also be more opportunities for mining to occur in areas that were once covered with ice and snow-we could really use the new resources. and oddly enough by actual statistics there are actually MORE polar bears than there were 10 years ago.