Literacy Blog #10

If you aggregate all the studies about global warming, the overall effect is positive today — and likely to stay positive until around 2080. That was the conclusion of Professor Richard Tol of Sussex University after he reviewed 14 different studies of the effects of future climate trends. I personally think this is crazy because if we know the affects will stop being positive in just 67 years then why are many people ignoring the problems now. If we start changing now we can keep those positive affect way into the future instead of just 67 years. Yeah I agree that a warmer climate might help now but when the Earth is so hot it “bursts in a ball of flames”(Eminem) we’ll then have problems. Even though I make jokes now in the future if we continue to do our bad habits the global temperatures will rise which in return will melt the glaciers covering the world in water. Now this may be a good idea if you have always wanted to live on the beach because it will eventually come to you or if you ever wanted to live on a houseboat you just better hope your house floats. The author talks about how more people die in winter than in summer, lower energy costs, probably fewer droughts, maybe richer biodiversity. I don’t know if it’s just me but probably and maybe doesn’t seem to legit. It says that if wealth increases it will be easier for people to cope with a different lifestyle in 2080 when the world has to become environmentally conscious. A 1.4% increase in the economy is no price to pay for killing the Earth that we all live on. Global warming is a bad thing yes they might be some good now but it will eventually become nothing but bad. If people way to take action when stuff is at it’s worse it will take even longer to correct such issues.