{"id":335959,"date":"2024-07-09T07:55:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T05:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335959"},"modified":"2024-07-09T07:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T05:55:38","slug":"new-study-carbon-dioxide-and-a-warming-climate-are-not-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335959","title":{"rendered":"New Study: \u2018Carbon Dioxide And A Warming Climate Are Not Problems\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, warmth and elevated CO2 are a boon for humanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new peer-reviewed paper published in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology<\/em> (May and Crok, 2024<\/a><\/strong>) counters the prevailing \u201cwisdom\u201d that says a warmer climate and greener vegetation are problematic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors detail the horrors of the much colder Little Ice Age that destroyed civilizations (crop failures, summerless years). Half the population of Finland and 15% of Scotland\u2019s citizens died off in the 1690s due primarily to the cold-induced famines and frozen-over water supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elevated CO2 and warmth are 70% and 8% responsible, respectively, for a much greener, more vegetated landscape across the world since the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incidence and severity of storms, hurricanes, floods, and extreme weather in general have undergone flat to declining trends over the last several decades. Thus, \u201cit is hard to find any unusual weather or weather-related disaster that can be blamed on climate change, whether natural or anthropogenic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c52 of 53 studies of disaster losses due to extreme weather were unable to attribute the events to human causes\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US government estimates the warming since 1950 has reduced the country\u2019s gross domestic product by less than 0.5%, and an estimated 3\u00b0C of warming by 2100 still only reduces the GDP by less than 1%. Considering the US economy grew by 800% from 1950 to present, this means any assumed \u201cdamage\u201d from warmth and elevated CO2 would not be detectable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quest to \u201csave\u201d the world from warming and elevated CO2 is devoid of scientific and socio-economic merit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead, warmth and elevated CO2 are a boon for humanity.
\nA new peer-reviewed paper published in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (May and Crok, 2024) counters the prevailing \u201cwisdom\u201d that says a warmer climate and greener vegetation are problematic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":335965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691827130,691818087,691828939,691829608,691829609],"class_list":{"0":"post-335959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co2","9":"tag-global-warming","10":"tag-may-and-crok","11":"tag-new-peer-reviewed-paper","12":"tag-the-american-journal-of-economics-and-sociology","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0wp4555644.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1poH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":403038,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=403038","url_meta":{"origin":335959,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Shut out\u2019: Journal fires editor after publishing research refuting \u2018warming climate\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"18\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0American Journal of Economics and Sociology\u00a0recently removed special editor Marty Rowland from his position for publishing a paper refuting climate change argument about carbon dioxide, according to the paper\u2019s authors.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In \"American Journal of Economics and Sociology\u00a0(AJES)\"","block_context":{"text":"American Journal of Economics and Sociology\u00a0(AJES)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=american-journal-of-economics-and-sociology-ajes"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMcBbvsz0SvdwTDyTCAwH2qmYxSqh01bC1Nbc8Dusv9Hz5913cvZHZSoMb-ehyDEhj8ylRuLsB-tC2Gz4RG6XzvUVgeTJQe-MnRSHtB3ZKj5rWbeO-eI4d_3l_8eYKud22zvTaBDjmgOwc0mwd2p_fVKdaGtA-4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMcBbvsz0SvdwTDyTCAwH2qmYxSqh01bC1Nbc8Dusv9Hz5913cvZHZSoMb-ehyDEhj8ylRuLsB-tC2Gz4RG6XzvUVgeTJQe-MnRSHtB3ZKj5rWbeO-eI4d_3l_8eYKud22zvTaBDjmgOwc0mwd2p_fVKdaGtA-4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMcBbvsz0SvdwTDyTCAwH2qmYxSqh01bC1Nbc8Dusv9Hz5913cvZHZSoMb-ehyDEhj8ylRuLsB-tC2Gz4RG6XzvUVgeTJQe-MnRSHtB3ZKj5rWbeO-eI4d_3l_8eYKud22zvTaBDjmgOwc0mwd2p_fVKdaGtA-4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMcBbvsz0SvdwTDyTCAwH2qmYxSqh01bC1Nbc8Dusv9Hz5913cvZHZSoMb-ehyDEhj8ylRuLsB-tC2Gz4RG6XzvUVgeTJQe-MnRSHtB3ZKj5rWbeO-eI4d_3l_8eYKud22zvTaBDjmgOwc0mwd2p_fVKdaGtA-4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMcBbvsz0SvdwTDyTCAwH2qmYxSqh01bC1Nbc8Dusv9Hz5913cvZHZSoMb-ehyDEhj8ylRuLsB-tC2Gz4RG6XzvUVgeTJQe-MnRSHtB3ZKj5rWbeO-eI4d_3l_8eYKud22zvTaBDjmgOwc0mwd2p_fVKdaGtA-4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":396125,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=396125","url_meta":{"origin":335959,"position":1},"title":"\u2018Orwellian\u2019 firing at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology for publishing a climate skeptic paper","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"19\/08\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it is official,\u00a0Marty Rowland PhD\u00a0has been fired from his position as Special Issue Editor at the\u00a0American Journal of Economics and Sociology\u00a0(AJES). 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