Global warming in the last 150 years has led to a rise in carbon dioxide, which is good
for crop production...
"To call present-day temperature a “crisis” is pure ignorance."
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/27/be-grateful-for-global-warming/
Be Grateful for Global Warming
Human and climate history reveal that we should welcome the warmth and fear the
cold, quite the opposite of the story the Climate Industrial Complex peddles.
By Gregory Wrightstone January 27, 2022
"Present-day warming has been termed a crisis, and modern economic development a cancer. But
what if I told you that much of the recent advancement in human prosperity would have been
impossible without the temperature increases of the last several hundred years?
A key to the sustenance of any society is food security. Today’s world should be grateful for
today’s relative warmth as well as higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels because
both have been instrumental in propelling plant growth globally.
A review of human and climate history reveals a strong link between the rise and fall of
temperature and the rise and fall of civilization—just opposite of what the climate doomsayers
are telling you.
Past warming periods were much warmer than our modern temperatures and were associated
with times of great prosperity. The intervening cold eras had names like Greek Dark Ages, the
Dark Ages, and Little Ice Age and were linked to crop failure, pestilence, and mass depopulation.
According to historian Wolfgang Behringer, “cooling has always resulted in major social
upheavals, whereas warming has sometimes led to a blossoming of culture. If we can learn
anything from the history of culture, it is that, even if humans were ‘children of the Ice Age,’
civilization was a product of climatic warming.”
Are you among those wishing for lower global temperatures? According to climatologist Dr.
Michael Mann, the ideal temperature for the planet would be “the temperature range that
prevailed since the dawn of civilization until we began burning fossil fuels.” That timing
would place humanity squarely in the death-dealing cold that prevailed during the aptly
named Little Ice Age, between 1250 and 1850. This was a cold period of global extent.
The Little Ice Age froze rivers such as the Thames, which has rarely been frozen in the
modern era. Here in the United States, we know that Martha Washington enjoyed ice
during the summers at Mount Vernon that was harvested from the Potomac River and
stored in an icehouse on the grounds. These thick freezes were an annual event in the
18th century, while today they only occur occasionally during unusually cold winters.
Historian Philipp Blom says the Little Ice Age resulted in “a long-term, continent-wide
agricultural crisis” in Europe. His book, Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the
Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present extensively
captures the collapse of Western society owing to crop failure in the 17th century.
Published scientific journals documented agricultural collapse in Europe. Finland, for
example, witnessed massive crop failure and abandonment of farmlands due to the
cooling phase.
Famine killed millions through starvation and disease.
While it is true that the 20th century’s remarkable increase in crop growth was greatly
aided by advancements in agricultural technology, it would have been impossible if the
earth hadn’t warmed to levels more conducive to plant life. As if this boost in temperatures
weren’t sufficient, the growth of plants has been further turbocharged by increasing
carbon dioxide that is likely the result of the industrial use of fossil fuels.
Today, countries across the globe excel in agriculture and are breaking records year after
year. Some formerly famine-struck countries like India, Pakistan, Mexico, China and
Philippines produce abundant quantities of crops, increasing global food security. To
call present-day temperature a “crisis” is pure ignorance. .."
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