Warmist Matthew Yglesias admits the obvious: Warmth would make the Arctic more hospitable

Climate Change Opening Up Russia's Frozen North | ThinkProgress

Drastic shifts in global weather patterns are, in the aggregate, a catastrophe for human welfare. But it’s a big planet, and there’s always some upside somewhere...For the narrow purposes of Arctic Ocean oil drilling, this is good news. And arctic seaports will benefit. But of course precisely because the climate is so inhospitable, very little of humanity lives in the arctic. Instead, people live in places where the climate has historically been suited to living. Dramatic shifts in global weather patterns will disrupt all those lives and degrade the value of the massive fixed investments we’ve made over the years in our non-arctic cities and farms.