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    I'm personally very positive about global warming. It's the best thing that could happen to the northern hemisphere, which has a lot of cold un-inhabitable land.

    The agricultural and inhabitable land will increase enormously in the following countries :

    • Canada
    • Russia
    • Northern Europe, Scandinavia
    • Maybe even parts of Greenland and Alaska if temperature increases enough, and let's hope even Antarctica.

    IF temperatures will really rise very fast, causing sea levels to rise i.e. 20 cm per year, there would be a problem for coastal areas. But, the actual increases in sea level are pretty minimal, and leave the countries facing it with plenty of time to react. Most of the Netherlands where I live lies beneath the sea, some parts even 7 m beneath sea level. The cost to our economy is minimal, we are amongst the richest nations on earth.

    What's more, building dams and sea-structures to contain the sea can even INCREASE the size of coastal nations, like it did in the Netherlands. There are plenty of low-water areas that could be dammed-in and cultivated, belgian and dutch companies are doing that in the middle-east, japan and hongkong for decades.

    Temperature increases also lengthen the time in which you can grow and harvest crops.

    In fact, higher temperatures cause the entire bio-cycle to accellerate, just like in a greenhouse, where it's done on purpose. This will INCREASE bio-mass and bio-activity around the world.

    If human activity would make the planet COLDER, I would be really concerned. But WARMER weather is a blessing to the earth. The technologies to cope with problems like rising sealevels are already known to the entire world for decades.

    In short, if a real temperature increase happens that can affect climate, this will open tremendous opportunities for business, and increase the inhabitable land on the earth enormously.On The problem is not how high the temperature may go, but how fast it is changing posted 1 year, 5 months ago 14 Responses