Can climate change and global warming be good things?

It was the harsh, unstable Dark Ages and Little Ice Age that brought bigger storms, untimely frost, widespread famine and plagues of disease." (Dennis Avery). Here's a list of cause and effect relationships, showing that most climate change impacts will confer few or no benefits, but may do great harm at considerable cost. read more

My answer may sounds crazy but climate change is a good thing. The change in the climate is the result of our activity on earth. The climate right now could be stable but it is because of the choices we have made over the past 300 years that the climate will change. We currently operate on a capitalistic mode and the model make us run after cash. read more

This latter point explains why the most prominent groups campaigning on global poverty and equality see climate change as a major threat. Ultimately, however, terms such as "good" and "bad" are subjective, so there can never be a single definitive answer to this question. read more

Climate change has done more good than harm so far and is likely to continue doing so for most of this century. This is not some barmy, right-wing fantasy; it is the consensus of expert opinion. Yet almost nobody seems to know this. read more