Why Global Warming Would be Good for You

GLOBAL WARMING: A Boon to Humans and Other Animals Thomas Gale Moore

Climate extremes would trigger meteorological chaos -- raging hurricanes such as we have never seen, capable of killing millions of people; uncommonly long, record-breaking heat waves; and profound drought that could drive Africa and the entire Indian subcontinent over the edge into mass starvation. ... Even if we could stop all greenhouse gas emissions today, we would still be committed to a temperature increase worldwide of two to four degrees Fahrenheit by the middle of the twenty-first century. It would be warmer then than it has been for the past two million years. Unchecked it would match nuclear war in its potential for devastation.[1] -  Senate Majority Leader (D) George J. Mitchell - 1991

Senator Mitchell's forecast and his history are both wrong. 

• Warmer periods bring benign rather than more violent weather. 
• Milder temperatures will induce more evaporation from oceans and thus more rainfall -- where it will fall we cannot be sure but the earth as a whole should receive greater precipitation. 
• Meteorologists now believe that any rise in sea levels over the next century will be at most a foot or more, not twenty.[2] 
• In addition, Mitchell flunks history: around 6,000 years ago the earth sustained temperatures that were probably more than four degrees Fahrenheit hotter than those of the twentieth century, yet mankind flourished...