Be Grateful for Global WarmingHuman 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.”
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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. A priest in France wrote:
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/27/be-grateful-for-global-warming/
