CLIMATE CHANGE BENEFITS MANKIND

The Hazard Analysis of Climate Change

CLIMATE CHANGE BENEFITS MANKIND

Climate Change benefits mankind. “Climate disasters” are often just bad weather events — or they are man-made events like forest fire damage to woodlands homes or flooding of built-near-sea-level homes.

We hear only the drum-roll of climate change dangers because climate change benefits are never examined - even though the benefits outweigh the dangers.

Examining climate change benefits tells us more than climate disaster propaganda. Climate disaster propaganda is spread by amateurs - by “Climate Scientists,” who lack professional Hazard Analysis training. Hazard Analysis? See: US federal law 40 CFR § 68.67. Such work gave me expertise that is unavailable to “Climate Scientists.”

My Hazard Analysis frame of reference reveals five Climate Change realities:

• The last 50 years of Climate Change gave the eastern USA cooler summers.

• Eastern USA (not USA west) has strong storms - weakened by cooler summers.

• More CO₂ in our air ended the Little Ice Age, preventing a new glacial period.

• The Little Ice Age caused sea levels to fall by 1.5 - 3.0 feet.

(Sea levels have risen 0.5 feet from 1900 to 2025.)

• The more clouds on a warmer earth cool our summers and our warm winters.

1. Proof that the eastern USA has cooler summers is simple and direct: I picked five random eastern USA locations and looked at the last fifty years of their summer temperatures. Specifically: I counted the number of hours in the first twenty years of those fifty years that were above 90°F. Next I counted the number of hours in the last twenty years of that period that were above 90°F. (Each twenty year period had 165,320 hourly temperatures.) The locations chosen were:

Galveston, Texas

Fargo, North Dakota

Morehead City, North Carolina

Mr. Vernon, Indiana

Presque Isle, Maine

The likelihood that all five locations would all show cooling simply due to chance has a 1/32 probability. In other words, because all five locations show cooling, there is a greater than 95% probability that some physical process is causing the cooling. (E.g., extra clouds created by the earth’s warming oceans cause the cooling.)

Galveston, Texas is one example: There were 5,013 hours above 90°F during the years 1973-1992 and there were 2,355 hours above 90°F during the years 2003-2022. This large drop in above 90°F hours demonstrates that summers have cooled in Galveston during the last fifty years of climate change. Similar results occurred at all, repeat all of the other random locations listed above.

For the detailed proof of cooling, see the USA spreadsheets in this Google Drive link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZZyYwFWRaR16xhRJC5yedz8GMmIQByXS?usp=share_link

2. You’ve heard, “Climate Change heating will cause stronger storms.” Since summer cooling is happening, storms will be weaker.

3. The Little Ice Age (a 500 yearlong worldwide event) ended in the late 1800’s, exactly when industry-created CO₂ began flooding into the earth’s atmosphere. Coincidence? As Albert Einstein said, “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”

The Little Ice Age was likely an event more ominous than a temporary cooling. It was likely the beginning of the end the Holocene, our own interglacial period. It was likely the precursor of a new Ice Age glacial period, which would have been catastrophic for the human race, given that the last glacial period almost wiped out mankind.

The earth was due to enter a new glacial period. One wonders whether a Higher Power gifted mankind with the ability to flood the earth’s atmosphere with CO₂ at this ideal moment in time. All that CO₂, such a dandy greenhouse gas, became available to heat the earth at the very moment mankind most needed it to appear.

4. Virtually the only benefit of the Little Ice Age was to lower sea levels. It transferred enough water out of the oceans to on-land glaciers that sea levels dropped 1.5 - 3.0 feet. This might have lessened the impact of flooding due to storm surges, though at that time there were many fewer people inhabiting ocean-front dwellings. Note that it will likely take several hundred years for our sea level to rise back to the level existing prior to the Little Ice Age.

5. The obvious physical process, the reason why climate change can cool summers, is the clouds. The Big Blue Marble we inhabit has a surface 70% covered by water. When the earth warms, more water evaporates into the atmosphere forming more clouds. Clouds cool the earth during daylight hours and clouds warm the earth at night. Summers have extra daylight hours and winters have extra nighttime hours. More clouds can give us both cooler summers and warmer winters. Also, warmer winters and cooler summers reduce the temperature gradients occurring over the earth’s surface, which will reduce storm intensity.

Note: Locations chosen in (1) above are not urban locations. Urban micro-climates represent corrupted data and don’t show the earth’s climate. Urban locations have “Paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” To use temperatures measured near parking lots, etc. is Bad Science. That measures parking-lot-climate — not true climate. (This is the well-known urban “heat island” effect; it hides the true climate.)

Regarding the extent of the Little Ice Age: The lack of historical records documenting the Little Ice Age in the Southern Hemisphere may not necessarily indicate an absence of cooling, but rather a lack of human observation. The Southern Hemisphere contains far less (hardly any) inhabited land area south of 35°S with few permanent settlements and sparse written records vs. the Northern Hemisphere with all its populated lands north of 35°N. This observational gap led to underestimation of the global extent of the Little Ice Age, a bias in climate reconstructions that disproportionately rely on Northern Hemisphere data.