And of course, this is bad, because it could reduce timber prices

Authored by 35 top forestry scientists, the study says climate change could lead to ”substantial gains” in the supply of timber by fueling a northward expansion of the boreal forest – a coniferous belt which runs across northern latitudes and includes forests in main timber producing nations such as Can-ada, Finland, Russia and Sweden.

Why wouldn't warming make food more abundant too?

The Green Issue - Why Isn’t the brain green? - NYTimes.com: [Alternate title: Why won't those hicks in flyover country buy into the greatest scientific fraud of all time?]

Two days after Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United States, the Pew Research Center released a poll ranking the issues that Americans said were the most important priorities for this year. At the top of the list were several concerns — jobs and the economy — related to the current recession. Farther down, well after terrorism, deficit reduction and en­ergy (and even something the pollsters characterized as “moral decline”) was climate change. It was priority No. 20. That was last place.