I know that were I live now, we get less snow than we did 30 years ago. These past few winters, we have barely had enough to warrant snow plows more than a handful of days per season. I also know people that use this a proof that the climate is changing and that if we don't give up fossil fuels, meat, etc, we are all going to die in the next X number of years.
That was my point.
And a lot people don't understand that the effects of climate change are highly dependent on where you live.
Stipulate for a second that global warming is causing droughts here in the Southwest where I live. And that those droughts are taking places which are already hot (Phoenix/Vegas) or already temperate with hot summers (SoCal) and making them hotter. And also making them more dangerous to live due to wildfires, and more difficult to feed with adequate water supplies due to drought causing less availability of Colorado River water. All of those things are bad, IMHO, for people living in the Southwest.
Now, look at a place like the Midwest. A place which, quite frankly, sucks balls for many months of the year. You have frigid winter, stormy spring, muggy hot summer, and quite wonderful fall. Now you change it and make winter just a little more temperate, probably with very little change to any of the other seasons. I think a lot of Midwesterners welcome that.
Climate change is likely to be bad for some people. It's also likely to be good for others. As long as there isn't a catastrophic tipping point or positive feedback loop that
drastically alters the ecosystem, the individual effects, good or bad, are going to be local in nature.
