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Originally Posted by CountryBoy1981
The warmer weather actually was good for humans pre-black plague. The warmer temperatures brought longer growing seasons which in turn allowed for more food to be grown. The climate changes all the time and it has been much warmer at times than it is now.
Every so many years there is a crisis that you need the scientists and government to protect you from (more taxes and funding). There was global cooling, y2k, and now global warming to name a few.
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Warmer weather is certainly not good in many ways. For the record, my area has received half the usual rainfall this year. Also, ever heard of desertification? Warming weather is going to exacerbate that, and turn millions of square miles of arable land into barren wastelands. It's already happening, and has been happening.
Sure, it will benefit some areas by increasing rainfall and growing seasons, like central Canada and the plains of Eastern Europe, but it will lay waste to others. The southeastern Great Plains are already running out of water (see depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer), and climate-change induced drought will make agriculture virtually impossible in the area in the coming decades. California is set to experience even hotter summers and further decreases in rainfall. This year was brutal enough in terms of drought, with massive wildfires occurring OUTSIDE the normal fire season. I don't ever remember wildfires happening in May and June in my lifetime. Warmer temperatures also cause warmer oceans, which causes sea level rise. And it will also cause tropical diseases like malaria and yellow fever to spread into subtropical and temperate regions. And then there are the positive climate feedbacks it can cause. That's a whole other story. If you want me to get into that I will.
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My personal opinion (which never makes the main-stream-media) is that with all the inflammatory terms, and actual threats levied against those that are not in mind-numbed robotic lock-step with the global-warming cult - the real 'zealots' are all too obvious.
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I love how you continue to ignore the temperature record. At least CountryBoy seems to acknowledge that there is a warming trend. As I said before, this is not a political issue. We have the facts on our side. Raw data. Scientific studies. Statistics. What do you have? The inane ramblings of pundits and oil-funded "scientists" and the asinine squawking of conspiracy theorists. I really don't understand why people like you are so untrustworthy of science when it is what has given you all of the modern conveniences and technology that you take for granted today. And why you buy into that BS that is peddled by people with no credentials whatsoever. It makes absolutely no sense to me. Is there something I'm missing?