Global warming played a role in Incas' rise, report says - Los Angeles Times

British archaeologists say a rise in temperatures helped fuel the empire, giving access to more cultivable, fertile land, and thus food surpluses that freed the Incas to expand and conquer.

Global warming is not necessarily always bad.

A 400-year warm spell in South America fueled the Incas' rise, British archaeologists reported Monday, helping them build the largest empire that ever ruled the continent.

Oregon Governor: Climate Change [Scam] Laws Vital to Economy -- Environmental Protection

"These bills are the next step in growing our green economy, lessening our dependence on foreign sources of fossil fuel and ensuring clean air, cleaner burning fuel and energy efficient buildings and homes that save money and protect our environment," Kulongoski said. "These policies secure Oregon's position as a national leader in climate change policy while also expanding economic opportunity in clean, green jobs across the state."

Statement on Arctic Climate Change from the President of the Royal Society « Watts Up With That?

‘It will, without doubt, have come to your Lordship’s knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice, has been during the last two years greatly abated. This affords ample proof that new sources of warmth have been opened, and give us leave to hope that the Arctic Seas may at this time be more accessible than they have been for centuries past, and that discoveries may now be made in them, not only interesting to the advancement of science, but also to the future intercourse of mankind and the commerce of distant nations.’

President of the Royal Society, London, to the Admiralty, 20th November, 1817, Minutes of Council, Volume 8. pp.149-153, Royal Society, London. 20th November, 1817.

Global warming is killing innocent Chinese workers | I Hate the Media - Fun with Liberal Media Bias

Hundreds of Chinese factory workers who manufacture CFLs for export have been poisoned and hospitalized because of mercury exposure. For example, at the Nanhai Feiyang lighting factory in Foshan city, 68 out of 72 workers required hospitalization. Tests found that 121 out of 123 workers at a Jinzhou factory had excessive mercury levels. American and European demand for the bulbs has also necessitated the reopening of dangerous mecury mines, heightening the risk for mine workers.