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The lighter side of global warming

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Unexpected Consequences

Now this will be interesting.  Whenever the Government gets involved with fixing the environment, consequences eventually point out the folly.  This fact has a rich history—one glaring example is how Asian carp were introduced to clean Southern fisheries, and they ended up killing off every fish in whatever ecosystem they enter.  We now have underwater electric fences in Chicago, hoping to prevent the entry of these fish into Lake Michigan.  The Government does not have a monopoly in this activity; well-meaning environmentalists have a rich history themselves.  You will read in the New York Times about the successful release of thousands of mink from fur farms, but you won’t read about the slow starvation of these animals in the wild.  The bottom line is that every action has a wide range of unintended consequences.  Some have called it “the butterfly effect”—not just in the movie of the same name.

Did anyone expect Global Warming to threaten the small, family-run restaurants in Mexico?

The old Time magazine from 1975 suggests putting soot on the arctic ice caps, to absorb more heat from the sun and prevent the freezing of all of mankind.  That was a bad idea.  Now this article reassures us that for a few trillion dollars, a ring of shade could be place around the earth. Déjà vu all over again…  I placed it in this section as an example of one of the consequences of global warming—global stupidity!

Turns out that if the earth warms, the trains won’t run on time.  There are other surprises as well.

Satellites will stay up longer than they used to.  So will the nuts and bolts that the astronauts drop.

Global warming the cause of seal infidelity!!

Global warming fuels fungal toad-killer!!

Toads aside, us Wisconsin rednecks joke about the benefit of a warmer winter, and yell “Global warming?  Bring it on!!”   But beyond that, it is rare to have a situation that is only bad.  Sure, we know about the flooding… but people die from the cold too!  And in the past, every environmental change has resulted in adaptation by the reining biota—why not now?  Three links below dare to peak at the good side of global warming.

A complete list of things caused by global warming

Agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end,  amphibians breeding earlier (or not),  ancient forests dramatically changed, Antarctic grass flourishes, anxiety,  algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Asthma, atmospheric defiance,  atmospheric circulation modified, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased,  bananas destroyed, bananas grow, bet for $10,000,  better beer, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, birds return early, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, Britain Siberian, British gardens change, brothels struggle, bubonic plague, budget increases, building collapse, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks,  butterflies move north,  cardiac arrest, caterpillar biomass shift, challenges and opportunities, childhood insomnia, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping,   cod go south, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink ,  cold spells, cost of trillions, crime increase, crocodile sex, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, cyclones (Australia), damages equivalent to $200 billion,  Darfur, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat,  destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities,  diseases move north, Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people,  ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season,  Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth to explode, earth upside down,  Earth wobbling, earthquakes, El Niño intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing,   evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation,  logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, bats, pandas, pikas, polar bears, pigmy possums, gorillas, koalas,  walrus, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang-utan,  elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout,  wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, less, not polar bears, barrier reef), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, fever,figurehead sacked, fish catches drop,  fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods,  Florida economic decline, food poisoning, food prices rise, food security threat (SA),  footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial retreat,  glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, grandstanding, grasslands wetter, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop,  greening of the North,  Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome,   harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, hazardous waste sites breached, heat waves,  hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, hornets, high court debates, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, human health risk, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, infrastructure failure (Canada), Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, industry threatened, infectious diseases,  insurance premium rises, invasion of midges,  island disappears, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy,