So it looks like it's not all gloom and doom after all. A few recent studies have managed to find the slim silver lining of climate change. Below, a look at the three small positive outcomes of global warming.
I notice that every article I see that includes even a lick of science these days gets mercilessly (and usually profanely) attacked by global warming fundamentalists. Why is the introduction of science so threatening?
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