Effects of Climate Change

The man is an idiot, to be sure, but he’s obviously correct here.  There are places on Earth at extreme latitudes that already have longer growing seasons, and use less energy to provide heat in winter.  There will also be a boom in tourist traffic in places that up until now were uninhabitable.  There are towns north of the arctic circle that topped 100° F last summer.

Want to invest in land for the long haul?  Buy pieces of northern Canada or Scandinavia that had no value whatsoever until the last few years, and even now are quite affordable. You can still buy half a county in North Dakota for what a nice place in California costs. But this is starting to change.  Karasjok, a town in northern Norway, is at 69.47° north latitude.  As I post this, it’s 41° F, at 11:15 PM.

Having said all this, there is now desert in places that were formerly arable land, as well as places that need more air conditioning in summer.

We’ll probably be discovering new effects of climate change for decades, on top of those we already know: sea-level rise, more droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, deaths from excessive heat, shortages of food and potable water, and disease caused by insects.

The totality of the effects of climate change is overwhelmingly negative.

It certainly would be embarrassing to stand up and make a speech in front of congress without understanding that.