By Martin H. Levinson
The Earth is getting hotter. Climate change is real. Is that a problem? It’s more like a gift.
With glaciers melting at record rates, sea levels are rising, which means more water in which to swim and frolic. Higher sea levels mean low-lying land areas will be submerged, so people will have additional places to dock their boats and to water- and jet-ski. Warmer seas will bring increased opportunities for ocean bathing throughout the year and with it the therapeutic benefits that come with warm water.
Increased wildfires are another climate-change plus, as such conflagrations can provide exciting breaks from the boring routines of everyday living. They can lead people who have lost their homes to appreciate that material things are replaceable but human life is not. Victims of wildfires, if they’re insured or have enough money, may get the chance to construct newer and better houses than the ones that went up in flames. If they do choose to build they probably can live in those houses for a few good years before the next round of fires.
With seawater evaporating more rapidly there is more fuel to produce powerful storms. That can be a godsend to those living in drought-prone areas since if there are enough storms some will probably occur in dry places that would benefit from the rain.
Unchecked climate change is projected to make one-third of the Earth’s animal and plant species go extinct by 2050. This would irreversibly reduce biodiversity across the globe—which is nothing short of fantastic, as there are way too many animal and plant species on the planet and who knows what they’re all up to: Do we know for sure that the Covid pandemic wasn’t caused by an exotic plant genus that had it in for human beings because they felt hominids were menacing their survival by heating up their habitat? Is it possible that a rare lizard genus in Rangoon is conspiring with an uncommon marsupial species in Madagascar to extinguish the human race because that’s their idea of fun? Is a weird class of lichen on the ocean floor colluding to kill off fish they don’t like, and in the process endangering our food supply? We don’t know half of what’s going on in the world and the more we can rid ourselves of possible threats to our existence before they become more than just threats the better.
Climate change will result in America’s landlocked states having their own ocean beaches and less people dying in cold spells. There will be no more snowbirds, which translates to tons of money saved on building second homes and gas used to get away in the winter. Perhaps most importantly, as people come to understand the benefits of climate change, the temperature will go down in climate change debates, as climate-change alarmists recognize they’ve been barking up the wrong tree—a tree that would never be able to grow in places like Siberia and the Yukon were those land masses not exposed to global warming.
Rather than fear or deny climate change, we should embrace the new weather norm that is fast upon us. We should revel in the temperatures rising round the globe and the many positive developments that will ensue because of it. Climate change: it’s hot and it’s cool in more ways than you can shake a melting icecap at.
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