But here in Ohio, Sohngen admits, most of the economy is “not climate sensitive.” And the Buckeye State is actually a half-degree to a full degree below the optimum climate temperature for agriculture.It is already very hard to pass climate change legislation; it is even harder to mount the argument when the negative consequences are not directionally clear for a given constituency.
“We can gain from a little bit of warming,” Sohngen said at the Review.
A strategy consultant tries to piece together, bit by bit, how humankind has used natural resources and how we might and should use them in the future. Some scope creep is inevitable.
The mixed effects of climate change
The effects of climate change will vary across the world - for example, crudely speaking, agriculture in Canada and Russia will benefit, and agriculture in the tropics will suffer. These differences also occur on a smaller scale:
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