Yes, Climate Change Has Benefits, Too

Just invested my daughter’s college fund in Siberian real estate per your instructions, thanks Sabine

As a person living in Siberia, I prefer the cold anyway. People really underestimate how hot Siberian summers can get

For archaeologists and paleontologists, more abandoned settlements and fossils are exposed.

We started having 47-48 C this year in india in multiple places. I am so scared of the future 😞

I am convinced that the billion of humans currently surviving in India at 50°C/120°F will be absolutely thrilled by the potential economic benefits of a few tens of millions in Siberia in 30 years' time.

But other than that Mrs Lincoln how did you like the play?

1995 was the last time we had a foot of snow in Northern England. But the amount of cloud and rain has increased here. It's a bit warmer, but the sky i get for my astronomy has declined too.

It's nice and warm sitting on top of the garbage heap, until you get more garbage heaped on top of you.

The sahara has gone through wet/dry periods for thousands of years.

The only real metric by which we can estimate how "good" climate change can be (assuming we're decent human beings, and not psychopaths) is how many millions or even billions of human lives the transition to a new equilibrium will cause. And unless one is naïve and clueless about today's reality, it will be the poorer millions or billions of humans of the planet who'll perish, the ones least responsible for climate change and the ones who've least benefited from its causes since the industrial revolution. Are we ready to embrace a historical event that will turn the death toll of WW2 into a speck of dust in contrast? Can a sense of "good" survive that?

My local climate has gotten better. We used to have extended times down to -45° ( Celsius and Fahrenheit cross there). Our summers got to +30°C. Now our winters are much nicer, we have two more months of growing season and summers are still the same. I much prefer what we have now.

A significant benefit is it makes it much easier to identify the ignorant or ideological from 10 paces.

For now, the more hospitable climate in Canada results in wildfires, floods, droughts, and parasite infestations. But yeah, the weather outside last month was quite agreable. After that, being a redhead acclimated to a cold climate, I'll spend almost all the afternoons of summer hiding from the sun, ideally in a room with AC, waiting with my husky that the sun turns down a notch before we go play outside.

Sabine is working up material for her new comedy/science hour. 😁 Glad I found the channel, she packages information so that I can understand the basic concept of things I have never thought about or considered before.

4:28 As someone born and raised in Finland I can confirm. The winters on average have become noticeably warmer.

Solar Energy for running AC in Summer is cheap and getting cheaper, while fossil energy for heating in winter is more expensive and getting even more expensive. Therefore cooling in summer is cheaper than heating in winter, and advances in the PV technology and CO2 taxes for fossil energy make coping with summer heat cheaper and coping with winter cold more expensive, therefore in turn making a warmer climate financially desirable? Summer activities are cheaper than winter activities of comparable fun levels? Commuting on a motorbike is cheaper and more fun than commuting by car (though admittedly more dangerous as well) and longer motorbike season allows to use the car less and the motorcycle more? In more and more areas 4-seasons commuting by motorcycle becomes possible, removing the necessity of a car for many people?

Thawing tundra does not make for good farmland. It's mushy and heavy equipment and buildings sink. It also releases enormous amounts of methane and when it's not freezing, the insects are so bad other animals can die from exhaustion.

Warming of the Arctic is not necessarily a net benefit for that region. Infrastructure that was built on permafrost is already being damaged as it melts. And that's ignoring the positive feedback the melting adds to the climate loop.

One thing that is rarely brought up - It's possible to grow food in hot and dry regions by switching to hardier crops and irrigating. However, it's effectively impossible to grow food in regions that are too cold. And there are VAST tracts of land on planet Earth that are currently too cold and basically uninhabited.

I facepalm hard when people rejoice about the sunny and hot days, but they push the AC to the max in their car. They actually hate hot temperatures just like me, but for some reason they feel compelled to pretend it feels good.