Finally, some good news about climate change!
Ferndamentalist doomsayers are desperate to characterize climate change as entirely bad. But a more logical approach would imply that even if it is occurring, climate change, like so many things, will be good for some and bad for others.
And it looks like it could be very good for Aussies, since we may well have more food to eat and sell over the next few decades. Here are Australian Farm Institute executive director Mick Keogh's thoughts on what might be in store:
In fact, Mr Keogh says, if global warming does occur, some areas such as southeast Queensland will receive more rain, and as a result will greatly benefit. Recent research has shown increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lifts plant production by up to 30 per cent in a phenomenon known as carbon fertilisation.
Interestingly, the explicitly causal link that Keogh makes in his observations has been ommitted in this ABC article on the same report.
