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Yes while some will temporarily benefit from global warming, the vast majority of humanity will suffer. We need articles about THAT story. Given that we are now in a mass extinction event (60% of animals gone in last 30 years, looking like 80% of bugs) people need to start doing some serious research into why, particularly how global warming is involved. It's likely very much involved. The recent research about the 98% drop in bugs in the Puerto Rican rainforest found that global warming seems to be the main cause, with extremely hot days becoming very frequent.

Edit: Nobody likes the gloom and doom stuff I guess. Nothing to see here, everything is fine.

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> Yes while some will temporarily benefit from global warming, the vast majority of humanity will suffer. We need articles about THAT story...Nobody likes the gloom and doom stuff

That's exactly the balance I see in climate change reporting. It's almost all doom and gloom. Articles like this one, which shows both positives and negatives, are an oddity.

Ah yes I too love to read about the positives of the worst ecological disaster we have ever experienced (created) that will lead to widespread suffering and death. It's like arguing about how nuclear war would be great for the construction business.

Go tell all the climate refugees when their home gets swallowed up by the ocean or when a heatwave kills their grandma that they need to see the "positive sides" of the situation.

There are positives if you live on an ice-clad mountain, or a country that's mostly ice-clad mountains.

There aren't many if you live in a river delta, or a country that's mostly river-delta.

8.5m people live in Switzerland, 165m in Bangladesh, to pick two examples.

I'd say the benefits are dubious even for countries with mountains. You don't own your country. If people in Bangladesh are displaced because of global warming, they have a right to move into neighboring places in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. I think the same is true for the Arabian peninsula and Central Europe. What are you going to do? Shoot and kill refugees?

> Nobody likes the gloom and doom stuff I guess. Nothing to see here, everything is fine.

I guess nobody likes to be told which articles they should read, which part of news to focus etc. Balanced news feed is preferred. The stuff you mention was written on HN tons of times, we all know this

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