It seems that we are already positioning ourselves to increasing productively through innovation in ways that will have multiple benefits in the future, although there are some who don't grasp how it works and say it is a money grab while not objecting to the status quo. For example, are we developing new crop hybrids that are more drought resistant and hardier in terms of holding up to other weather extremes? Yes...and are we developing technologies that are making us more efficient in our use of resources? Yes.
This leads us to the question of whether or not AGW is the catalyst that is making this happen, and if so, is there something sneaky about it or not...I don't know, no one can say with certainty how much influence AGW itself is having on technological advances but I think agriculture and energy production are examples of how productivity can and is benefitting at least indirectly from global warming, regardless of the outcome.
There are people who don't like that, and don't like governments getting involved with it or trying to shape the public's behavior via policy and use of public money to do so. But you know, despite claims to the contrary, this isn't a Goebbels/Nazi style of social engineering or a Pol Pot regime or people being sent to 're-education camps,' etc. The people saying that are generally at least a little paranoid and often obviously addlepated and it is probably pretty fortunate for the general public to witness such stuff being tossed around as casually as it is...after a while, people who act like there is some crisis in the making that will cost us all our liberty lose their influence on the issue at hand while perhaps making others a little more alert to and wary of the real Goebbels and Pol Pot wannabes out there.
So the answer is R&D and advancing technology as a result will optimize the potential productively that the challenge of AGW/climate change may present.
Your presumption that there is an unnatural global warming is without merit. Prove that there is before you proceed with your reasoning.
The only thing productive about AGW is that it makes crooked people rich. Look at Al Gore.
Quote by Tom McElmurry, meteorologist, former tornado forecaster in Severe Weather Service: “Governmental officials are currently casting trillions down huge rat hole to solve a problem which doesn’t exist....Packs of rats wait in that [rat] hole to reap trillions coming down it to fill advocates pockets....The money we are about to spend on drastically reducing carbon dioxide will line the pockets of the environmentalists....some politicians are standing in line to fill their pockets with kick back money for large grants to the environmental experts....In case you haven’t noticed, it is an expanding profit-making industry, growing in proportion to the horror warnings by government officials and former vice-presidents.”
Yes, we are talking about a much larger scale of snake oil sales.
BTW, what did those Vikings do to raise the temperature?
Unfortunately CO2 is not causing us warming, so our chance to increase our habitation in places like Greenland is not going to happen, Co2 is however increasing crop production.
its lame. das what.
The viking rule was in a time of warming - The Medieval Climate Optimum. Things cooled off, and so did they. We're talking about a much larger scale here, though.
