Study: Global Warming Boosts Growth, Health

by JASmius

So, in honor of Earth Day, let's all ingest a quart can of Van Camps pork & beans, go outside, and fart for all we're worth:

The modest increase in temperatures observed across the globe over the last century has helped to raise the standard of living of people around the world, according to a report from the National Center for Policy Analysis....

Earth's climate has shifted many times through history and prehistory, from tropical to frigid and back again. Over the preceding century and a half, average temperatures have gone up slightly, though the ongoing warming trend has apparently been on pause for the last 16-year period.

"Contrary to popular belief, climate change thus far has had positive effects, and the net benefits of warming are likely to be positive for the foreseeable future," according to the report by NCPA senior fellow H. Sterling Burnett.

The 0.8 degree Celsius (1.4 degree Fahrenheit) increase in Earth's temperature since 1880 has boosted global economic output by 1.4%, he asserts. It accomplished this by increasing agricultural production, cutting heating costs, and generating many other economic benefits.

Decreasing worldwide temperatures, on the other hand, portends upheaval and death, as they have for millions of years.

"Cooling kills, and that is what is to fear," climate expert Christopher C. Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute told Newsmax.

Amazing it is what a complete examination of the facts will turn up.  On "climate change," as anything else in life - at least outside a Roland Emmerich eco-disaster epic - it turns out that, at worst, there are pros as well as cons, to warming as well as cooling.  And it also appears from this study that it is global warming that is "progressive" in its affects on the income scale, and global cooling that is "regressive".  Which is to say, the Left is relentlessly fearmongering against the climatological direction that will most benefit the poor and disadvantaged in the name of expanding their poverty and oppression to the remainder of the planetary population outside of the ruling party elites, which will, naturally, exempt themselves from the ecological prognosis they will force on everybody else.

A self-serving, as well as self-fulfilling, prophecy.  Which does add some context to the ancient Klingon proverb, "Revenge is a dish that is best served....cold."