Michigan will be best place to live by 2100 A.D. due to climate change

[Jonny Appleseed]

4. Climate change benefits Russia pretty well.

Much of Russia is covered in permafrost and tundra, making it unusable for farming and also an unpleasant place to live. Global warming could change that. Researchers at Germany's Ludwig Maximilians University estimate that warming temperatures could add more than 1.15 million square miles to Russia's arable land. This is in stark contrast to most countries, whose farmland would shrink as the climate warms.

Climate change is also expected to melt a lot of arctic ice. Much of Russia is near or in the arctic, so this would open navigation channels that have been closed for centuries. Russia spent years fighting wars with the goal of acquiring warm-water ports; now, rising temperatures may accomplish that goal, or something similar, without any shots fired. Melting ice and frost will also open new fossil fuel deposits for exploitation.

http://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-wire-smith-ending-climate-change-fight-helps-russia-1220-20161219-story.html