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Originally Posted by twister244
And if we are going to talk about impacts, you can't ignore the small positive impacts:
- Longer growing seasons and potentially more productive agriculture
- Overall higher average winter temperatures. I say average as violent swings will still occur from arctic air intrusions.
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cold winters are what keep lots of invasives at bay. if we dont have those, then there are whole host of pests/plants that are going to migrate up which our natural habitats have zero defenses for. all of that has massive implications for agriculture. to say nothing of our forests/urban canopies and the plants/animals that live in symbiosis with an environment that has been fine tuned since the last ice age. we're in the midst of a mass extinction.
also, we're finding our pesticides no longer work they way they used to as invasives are becoming faster and faster at evolving and dodging things which have historically worked at controlling them. but thats another story.