A Very Convenient Warming

Gregory Wrightstone

Learn about the enormous benefits that are accruing to humanity from modest warming and increasing carbon dioxide. By nearly every metric, Earth’s ecosystems are thriving, and the human condition is improving. This notion of a prospering planet is...

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Foreword

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Introduction

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I. Basic Climate Facts: 1. Greenhouse Gases and their Effect

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I. Basic Climate Facts: 2. Carbon Dioxide — The Miracle Molecule

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I. Basic Climate Facts: 3. Turning Up the Heat on Temperature Data

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II. Humanity and Climate: Blessed Warmth, Horrific Cold: 1. Climate and Early Human History

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II. Humanity and Climate: Blessed Warmth, Horrific Cold: 2. Minoan Warm Period (1500 to 1200 B.C.)

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II. Humanity and Climate: Blessed Warmth, Horrific Cold: 3. Greek Dark Ages (1200 to 250 B.C.)

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II. Humanity and Climate: Blessed Warmth, Horrific Cold: 4. Roman Warm Period (250 B.C. to A.D. 450)

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II. Humanity and Climate: Blessed Warmth, Horrific Cold: 5. Dark Ages (A.D. 450 to 850)

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II. Humanity and Climate: Blessed Warmth, Horrific Cold: 6. Medieval warm period (A.D. 850 to 1250)

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II. Humanity and Climate: Blessed Warmth, Horrific Cold: 7. Little Ice Age (A.D. 1250 to 1850)

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III. Life Is Good and Getting Better: 1. Fewer Natural Disasters and Fewer Disaster Deaths

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III. Life Is Good and Getting Better: 2. Global Warming Saves Lives

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III. Life Is Good and Getting Better: 3. Declining Droughts are Benefiting Humanity

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III. Life Is Good and Getting Better: 4. Throwing Cold Water on Wildfire Fear

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III. Life Is Good and Getting Better: 5. Plants Love CO₂ and So Should You

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III. Life Is Good and Getting Better: 6. How Green Is My Planet?

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III. Life Is Good and Getting Better: 7. Killing the "6th Mass Extinction" Lie

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Notable Quotables on "Consensus"

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