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[Myles]

Any thoughts?

The thawing of previously unused farmland could be one.
More freshwater from the melting ice.

[The Mule]

Hopefully less winter wear I live.

[Myles]

The Mule, on 07 September 2012 - 05:47 PM, said:

Hopefully less winter wear I live.

Good one.   More pleasant climate for some norhtern regions.

[Br Cornelius]

Myles, on 07 September 2012 - 05:49 PM, said:

Good one.   More pleasant climate for some norhtern regions.

The amount of available sunlight will determine the potential to farm at higher latitudes - it ain't going to change significantly.

Br Cornelius

[and then]

One of the most significant early on is reduced costs in shipping due to open water at the Polar regions.

[Br Cornelius]

and then, on 07 September 2012 - 06:27 PM, said:

One of the most significant early on is reduced costs in shipping due to open water at the Polar regions.

But this will bring on more arctic oil drilling - which will accelerate Global warming.

I find it extremely difficult to see positive in Global warming.

Br Cornelius

[Hilander]

Storm chasers will have bigger tornadoes to chase.

[Myles]

Br Cornelius, on 07 September 2012 - 06:32 PM, said:

But this will bring on more arctic oil drilling - which will accelerate Global warming.

I find it extremely difficult to see positive in Global warming.

Br Cornelius

It's not difficult if you put aside the negatives.   I'm not saying global warming is a good thing, I just thought a topic about the positives could be refreshing.

I think there is a potential to explore new archaelogical sites.   New digs in previously untouched land.

[Br Cornelius]

Myles, on 07 September 2012 - 06:46 PM, said:

It's not difficult if you put aside the negatives.   I'm not saying global warming is a good thing, I just thought a topic about the positives could be refreshing.

I think there is a potential to explore new archaelogical sites.   New digs in previously untouched land.

Sea level rise would make that extremely unlikely. I would love to see the continental shelves emerging from the oceans so we could find out what Ice age culture was really like in places like the Gulf of Arabia and Sunderland - but that would require a return to Ice age conditions not global warming.

[Myles]

Br Cornelius, on 07 September 2012 - 06:50 PM, said:

Sea level rise would make that extremely unlikely. I would love to see the continental shelves emerging from the oceans so we could find out what Ice age culture was really like in places like the Gulf of Arabia and Sunderland - but that would require a return to Ice age conditions not global warming.

Not entirely true.  In Canada they have already unearthed many fossils of extinct animals in areas that used to be permafrost.   I don't think sea level rise will cover all land.

Ooh ooh!  Another positive:  People who had not ever had seashore property will have it.

Edited by Myles, 07 September 2012 - 07:02 PM.

[Myles]

A team in Russia has unearth some potential mammoth living cells that were buried in what was frozen ground before this year,

[zenfahr]

The dersert will become a jungle!! bring on the monkeys

[Myles]

zenfahr, on 12 September 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:

The dersert will become a jungle!! bring on the monkeys

So the positive is that more living animals will be able to survive on that land.   More resources (trees).

Not bad.

Again, this thread is not meant to discount the fact that global warming is a big negative for the earth's population.   It's to find the positives that we can hold onto.

[Little Fish]

less people dying from the cold

[Doug1o29]

Any change to the status quo will create both winners and losers.  Canada and Russia stand to gain arable land and will be able to make up the agricultural shortfall caused by desertification in the US.  The Everglades will disappear, but the area around Gainesville will have a lot of good seaside property.  We may even have a ne fishery where the Greenland icecap is now to replace the ones we've killed off.  Etc.
Doug