Oh good grief:

[Senior U.S. climate negotiator Harlan] Watson also said that evidence for global warming seemed to be getting stronger but that there was still great uncertainty about how a warming would affect the planet.

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"In these settings there tends to be only an emphasis that ‘everything is going to be worse everywhere’. There are undoubtedly going to be areas where things are going to get better," he said.

For instance, in the gated mountaintop redoubts of the super-rich, things are going to be positively Edenic!

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