Climate change is happening. The Earth is getting hotter. Is that a problem? I don’t think so.

With glaciers melting at record rates, sea levels are rising, which means there’s more water around to swim and frolic in. Rising sea levels also mean low-lying land areas will be submerged, so people will have more room to dock their boats and go water- and jet-skiing. And, with the seas getting hotter—thank you, oil and coal companies for helping to increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere—there will be added opportunity for ocean bathing throughout the year and the enjoyment of the therapeutic benefits of warm water to ease sore and stiff muscles.

More frequent wildfires are another climate change plus, as such conflagrations can provide exciting breaks in the boring routines of everyday living and lead people, whose houses have gone up in smoke, to appreciate their good fortune in that material things are replaceable but human life is not. Victims of wildfires, if they’re insured or have sufficient money lying around, may get the chance to construct newer and better houses than the one’s they lost and if they build in the same place as their destroyed homes, they probably can live in them for a few good years before the next round of fires.

With increased water vapor evaporating into the ether, there is more fuel to produce powerful storms. Such storms are a godsend, given that climate change ups the odds of drought in many areas. The trick is to match the storms to the droughts, which shouldn’t be hard to do if you get the science right. Once that’s done, droughts can be eliminated throughout the world by shunting hurricanes to dry areas. Does climate change get any better than that. Hell yeah!

Climate change is projected to commit over one-third of the Earth’s animal and plant species to extinction by 2050 if current greenhouse gas emissions trajectories continue. This would be a big loss that would irreversibly reduce biodiversity across the globe, which is nothing short of fantastic, as there are way too many animal and plant species on the planet and who knows what all of them are up to: Can we be sure the Covid pandemic was not caused by an exotic plant genus that had it in for human beings because it felt hominids were menacing its existence by heating up its habitat? Is it possible that a rare lizard type in Rangoon is conspiring with an uncommon marsupial group in Madagascar to extinguish the human race because that’s their idea of fun? Is a weird class of lichen on the ocean floor colluding to kill off fish they don’t like, and in the process endangering our food supply? We don’t know the half of what’s going on in the world and the more we can get rid of possible threats to our lives before they become more than just threats the better.

Climate change will result in America’s landlocked states having their own ocean beaches, Anchorage becoming a warm place to travel in December, Venice becoming reachable by submarine, and people dying less in cold spells. No more snowbirds with climate change, which translates to lots of money saved on building second homes and gasoline used to get away in the winter. Perhaps most importantly, as people come to understand the benefits of climate change, the temperature will go down in climate change debates, as climate-change alarmists realize they’ve been barking up the wrong tree—a tree that wouldn’t be able to grow in places like Siberia and the Yukon were those land masses not exposed to global warming.

Rather than deny or fear climate change, we should embrace the new weather norm that is fast upon us. We should revel in the temperatures rising round the globe and the many positive developments that will ensue because of it. Climate change: it’s hot and it’s cool in more ways than you can shake a melting icecap at.