Global warming might not be so bad after all...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,481684,00.html

Something interesting given we've just been through Earth Hour.
Since we're force-fed doomsday scenarios from Al Gore and others who know better on a daily basis, we would probably all benefit from a light snack of skepticism.

Full disclosure:

I don't believe that man-made global warming is going to be a problem. For me, it smacks of self-importance to think that our species would somehow manage to destroy a world which has gone through countless climate changes and fluctuations in the past. The climate has always changed, and always will. If anything, it could well bring some good (which is not to say there won't also be bad) - i.e. more fertile farmland in the vast swaths of tundra in Northern Canada and Russia, a more temperate Europe etc.

Which is not to say that we shouldn't conserve and use our resources wisely, but methinks the global catastrophic warming camp doth protest too much, and that that the negative aspects of climate change (fictional or real) are way oversold.

EDIT: To reply to the comment - how arrogant we are, to think that out of all the species and all the massive events to grace or afflict this planet, somehow we are the ones that hold the key to it's destruction or salvation. Moreover, how disgusting that we view "the planet" as much more important than human lives - I suppose it's somehow more civilized or humane to consign billions to starvation and poverty.