At this point, most people are familiar with climate change, whether they would like to admit that it is happening or not. Extreme weather events — from raging wildfires and excruciating heat waves to sudden floods and freezing winter storms — show us the realities of a warming planet. The climate is changing, and it is going to be bad.
That is, unless you ask the climate change skeptics, who seem to have a permanently "glass is half full" demeanor about the planet warming. Sure, they might recognize that temperatures are rising and we are pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate, but they dare to ask the question no one else will: What if that is actually a good thing? The fact that the planet is warming means there are fewer deaths from the cold, argues Fox News goon Greg Gutfeld. And according to the New York Post, carbon dioxide is actually like a fertilizer that is "greening" the planet, resulting in more active plants than ever before. Big oil interest groups have run with this idea, too, touting it as a benefit of burning fossil fuels. Sure, it's melting the ice essential to sustaining life and protecting the planet, while resulting in catastrophic sea level rise, but the planet is literally more green — and that's what we all want, right?
