Not that our media will run with this, but a German Magazine has take the *heretical* position that not only is global warming not a problem, it is actually good.

German Mag Debunks Climate Change Hysteria, Extols Benefits of Warming Planet

Here’s something you’re unlikely to see in an American newspaper or magazine: global warming might actually be good for the planet and its inhabitants.

This radical idea was advanced Monday by the German magazine Der Spiegel which did something I can’t imagine a U.S. publication having the nerve to do in this highly politicized environment: offer readers a comprehensive, balanced view of the pluses and minuses inherent in a warming earth.

How delightfully extraordinary.

Unlike most American media reports on this issue, Spiegel, in an article ironically titled “Not the End of the World as We Know It,” wonderfully began with a little history on the subject to put things in a proper perspective (emphasis added throughout):

Svante Arrhenius, the father of the greenhouse effect, would be called a heretic today. Far from issuing the sort of dire predictions about climate change which are common nowadays, the Swedish physicist dared to predict a paradise on earth for humans when he announced, in April 1896, that temperatures were rising — and that it would be a blessing for all.

Arrhenius, who later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, calculated that the release of carbon dioxide — or carbonic acid as it was then known — through burning coal, oil and natural gas would lead to a significant rise in temperatures worldwide. But, he argued, “by the influence of the increasing percentage of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, we may hope to enjoy ages with more equable and better climates,” potentially making poor harvests and famine a thing of the past.

Doesn’t sound like what soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not-so merry alarmists are proffering as they travel the world spreading doom and gloom on the subject, does it?

Read the rest of the story at newsbusters.  I won’t take a position on this other then to note that my personal belief is that the planets cycle of warming is inevitable and normal, as evidenced by the historical warming and cooling records, and what is more relevant is our ability as a species to adapt then our ability to control it.

Think of it this way.  Whether you agree with my position or the alarmists like Gore and the  UN sycophants, the warming period we are approaching is inevitable and cannot be halted.

So panicking is obviously not helpful.

Maybe planning is.

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