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Climate Change Might Lead to More Murders

posted by janrinok on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the stabbed-in-the-back dept.

nobbis writes:

"Crime rates could be affected by climate change, according to economist Matthew Ranson quoted in a New Scientist article. Criminologists note that warm days see more offences, and Ranson used FBI crime data along with weather records to estimate the potential impact of increased temperatures on crime figures. His model estimates a rise in crime rates of between 0.5 and 3.1 percent if the world warms by 2.8 degrees by 2100. This would equate to an extra 22,000 murders in the US by that time.

Other researches think offending rates will fall when it is simply to hot to go out."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JimmyCrackCorn on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:20AM

    by JimmyCrackCorn (1495) on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:20AM (#9412)

    no.

    the colder it gets the more babies nine months later...so more sex when cold.
      http://www.livescience.com/32728-baby-month-is-alm ost-here-.html [livescience.com]

    Warm winter may have below norm baby production, which would not offset the increase from heat murderers.

    This is a hot topic.

    It really burns me up to rant about.

    I have murdered my karma.

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