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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: 0, Flamebait) by marcello_dl on Sunday March 02 2014, @05:44AM

    by marcello_dl (2685) on Sunday March 02 2014, @05:44AM (#9483)

    And you have trouble with that?
    YOU have global warming and pay more taxes.
    WE have global warming and solve overpopulation with it. With a lower IQ than you, too. HA!

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