Warnings are strong indicators of errors. Do you know the cause of the warnings you have received? If the warnings you received reveal code that needs to be fixed, then you can show their worth.

Are your coworkers planning on altering core and 3rd party modules as well? Wouldn't it be simpler to make warnings die noisily? Something as simple as $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { die ... }; might satisfy them.

The performance hit of warnings is negligible, IIRC. Feel free to Benchmark them.

Update: The following demonstrates that 100,000 warnings checks did not slow down Perl at all. 

use strict;
use warnings;

use Benchmark qw( cmpthese );

my $passes = 100_000;
my $tests  = -10;

sub with {
   use warnings;
   my $i = 0;
   $i = $i + 1         # Undefined check
      for 0..$passes;
   1;
}

sub without {
   no warnings;
   my $i = 0;
   $i = $i + 1         # No undefined check
      for 0..$passes;
   1;
}

cmpthese($tests, {
   with    => \&with,
   without => \&without,
});

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outputs 

Benchmark: running with, without, each for at least 10 CPU seconds...
      with: 10 wallclock secs (10.24 usr +  0.00 sys = 10.24 CPU) @ 20
+.40/s (n=209)
   without: 11 wallclock secs (10.40 usr +  0.01 sys = 10.41 CPU) @ 20
+.47/s (n=213)
          Rate    with without
with    20.4/s      --     -0%
without 20.5/s      0%      --

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In reply to Re: Warnings and Strict in Production/Performance by ikegami
in thread Warnings and Strict in Production/Performance by deep submerge

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