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February 6, 2005

The Benefits of Global Warming

Posted by Eric at 3:26 pm. Filed under: General

From the San Francisco Examiner we read:

Q: There are advantages to global warming?

A: Absolutely. I come from Denmark, and there it’s pretty cold. The environmental assessment of the impact of global warming in Denmark is that overall it will be slightly positive. We’ll have better agricultural production. We’ll probably have better forestry. We will, however, also have more flash rain. That will be a negative.

One of the most typical examples we’re told is that people will die from heat waves from global warming. That’s true. People will die from heat waves. What you really seem to forget is in most advanced countries, the cold deaths outweigh heat deaths two-to-one.

And of course while you will get more heat deaths, you will also get many fewer cold deaths, and actually a research team looking at the cold and heat deaths around Europe estimated that for Britain global warming will mean 18,000 fewer deaths.


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