I like it warm. Animals like it warm. Plants like it warm. People (that would include you) are built for warm.

In order to cause people to flee the US, temperatures would have to go up a lot more than they have. On the other hand, immigration into Canada (people seeking out Canada) may increase since the currently intolerable conditions there will become tolerable. There is a much bigger difference between 32°F and 35°F than there is between 72°F and 75°F.

Economic and political conditions will be more important than climate as impetus to emigration.

Look for the Anthropocentric Climate Change Or Whatever (ACCOW) alarmists to grow more and more frantic as their convenient lies are exposed by reality.

Duh yourself, Toom.  Did Noel say that GW is "a good thing for all of us?"  Nope, the story is about Greenland.  Maybe it's time for you to apply some of the critical thinking you supposedly learned in 1987 high school?    ;^>

Shortsightedness serves you well. 

Crops we currently DON'T grow here will.   Heating costs will go down.  Cold related deaths will decrease.    Diveristy of life will increase.  Ever notice there are far more species in warm regions than cold ones?

But International Falls, Minnesota will continue to be a frozen hell for six months of the year!

Toom, tell your teacher recreational fisherman will benifit the most. Warmer means more water, perhaps we can get that sea back they say was here eons ago. Then I wont have to drive so far to put my boat in the water. More water, more fishing and boating and longer seasons for it.

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Toom,

I think you badly missed the point here. First of all, this wasn't about "will media report it?" Instead, it was shock that for the second time in four days somebody did.

One of the hottest media topics is indeed global warming, correct? Has been since Gore's movie came out. Yet, during that time, the media meme has been that AGW represents imminent doom to the planet.

Yet, you almost never hear or read about the possible advantages of a little warmer planet. Shouldn't we also be informed about the upsides rather than all of the speculative downsides, especially if we can identify real positives today? Isn't this especially the case if one such positive witnessed just last year was a reduction in greenhouse gases?

Do you think it's only Greenland and Canada that would benefit from a slightly warmer planet? After all, a shorter winter in America would mean a longer growing season for agricultural products around the country thereby likely reducing prices. The same could be said of countries across the globe.

For instance, a shorter winter everywhere might reduce influenza, and all manner of cold-related diseases and deaths. Wouldn't this be a good thing?

In the end, for the past couple of years, we have only been told the downside to a warming planet all based on conceivably erroneous predictions. Shouldn't we also be told of the upside, especially if there are areas of the planet already demonstrating such?

Or, do you from your position inside the media think this is too much to ask?  ns

"For the first century or so of their Greenland colonization, the Vikings and their descendants enjoyed a reasonably prosperous and pleasant life there. Greenland's climate c. 1000 A.D. was in an extraordinarily warm phase, and the name Eric chose for his new land may not have been quite the real-estate promoter's con-job as has been assumed. Even 350 years later, after a general global cooling had altered Greenland's climate for the worse, Ivar Bardson wrote that " On the mountains and lower down grow the best of fruits, as big as apples and good to eat. There also grows the best wheat that exists." Life in Greenland was hardly the rough outpost existence we might expect....

However by 1200, climatic change allowed the arctic ice pack to creep farther southward, making navigation in Greenland waters increasingly hazardous -- even in summer. Ships came now only sporadically, and some years none called at all. In 1261, the Greenlanders felt obliged to accept union with Norway and subjection to the Norwegian crown, in return for which two ships would be sent per year. This effectively shut the Hansa markets off from Greenland trade, and sometimes even the promised Norwegian vessels didn't make it through the ice. The colonies' decline accelerated."

Dave, take your pick using this algore rythm.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Dave,

Actually, the only part of your post that was accurate is the following: "I am so confused."

Yes, Dave...you are!   ns

Noel never said there was no global warming. He said there was no man made global warming. Second, algore droped water vapor off his little chart, why you may ask. Well, maybe you wouldent ask, but I do. And it turns out that water vapor is the largest green house gas we have, and retains more heat, and with it on the chart, you can barely see CO2.

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