You challenged me to rebut your post -- but didn't even make an argument, so I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to rebut.
Harvard astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas says added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may actually benefit the world because more CO2 helps plants grow. Warmer winters would give farmers a longer harvest season.
And I'll kindly repost my friend palerider's remarks that you ignored: "...our quality of life will improve considerably on a warmer earth. You really haven't looked at this subject beyond what the "high priests" of global climate change have told you have you? We know for a fact that the people who were living during the medieval warm period between 800 and 1300 AD (which by the way was considerably warmer than today) had an easier, more productive, and more abundant life than those who lived on either side of it until the age of machines began.
A warmer earth will have more rainfall, it will cost less to heat, more of the earth will become arable and in turn, open up vast areas of land to food production that produce nothing now. Historically, (in earth terms) life flourishes at a rate that we have never seen during the warm periods and both plants and animals struggle during the cool periods and with one notable exception at the end of the Permian (due to volcanic activity on a massive scale) major die offs of species have happened during cold periods."
"If the models are correct, global warming reduces the temperature differences between the poles and the equator. When you have less difference in temperature, you have less excitation of extra-tropical storms, not more. Claims for starkly higher temperatures are based upon there being more humidity, not less--hardly a case for more storminess with global warming."
-- Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT
This doesn't really make sense to me, but then again, I'm not a scientist. How would melting ice caps won't overflow the oceans anymore than melting ice cubes overflow an already full glass of water?
And further, global warming could actually be causing certain glaciers to grow contend numerous sources. Glaciers are growing in Norway, New Zealand and even the United States. The U.S. Forest Service reports that the Hubbard Glacier in Alaska's Tongass National Forest is advancing so rapidly, it threatens to close off a major fjord. In addition, evidence so far suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average.
