Baseball’s Opening Day: Global Warming Wanted

It’s Opening Day, and here in Washington the Nationals are scheduled to play the Atlanta Braves at 1:05 PM.  The weather forecast is for rain and high temperatures in the upper-40s.  At least the wintry mix has ended.   I can’t wait for a little global warming.

I once had a chance to ask former Vice President Al Gore about the benefits of higher carbon dioxide levels and global warming.  He was dumbfounded.  Clearly, the idea of any upsides had never occurred to him.  A great deal of material on the benefits of higher carbon dioxide levels has now been collected in a book by Drs. Craig Idso and Sherwood Idso.  A summary can be found at this link.  The book, the Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment, can be ordered here.

Although the Idsos catalogue many of the benefits of higher carbon dioxide levels, their invaluable web site, CO2 Science, also catalogues the overwhelming evidence and data that there has not been enough global warming in the past few decades to notice.  That’s why opening days are still so often cold and miserable.