Originally Posted by
N2264J
"Global warming" is really the wrong label to apply. It's really global climate destabilization we're talking about.
In your example, a longer growing season may also mean that insects harmful to the crops stop dying off in the winter. Declining snow pacts to replenish the aquifers means water becomes an issue. Rain fall patterns change so breadbasket states like Kansas and Nebraska in the corn belt may turn into desert states like Nevada and Arizona. Really inconvenient if you're a farmer in Kansas.
For those who believe addressing global climate change now is an economic boondoggle, I would submit that the price is going to go up the longer we wait.
Global warming was, and is, the meme used by your side when dealing with grade schoolers and half-wit adults. Your simple syllogism--CO2 causes warming and, since it is warming it is caused by CO2. It is a demonstrably bad logical sequence, but it moved the ball as long as temps increased. Now that the temps are going down you are trying to move off your global warming position. No way--you guys own that position, it got you where you are, and now you're going to have to live with it.
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