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A Climate of Violence?
Rambo Tribble writes "U.S. researchers have come to the conclusion that a changing climate can drive increased violence in human society. Their findings are to reported in Science (abstract). 'They report a "substantial" correlation between climate and conflict. Their examples include an increase in domestic violence in India during recent droughts, and a spike in assaults, rapes and murders during heatwaves in the U.S. The report also suggests rising temperatures correlated with larger conflicts, including ethnic clashes in Europe and civil wars in Africa.' Marshall Burke, one of the authors, said, 'This is a relationship we observe across time and across all major continents around the world. The relationship we find between these climate variables and conflict outcomes are often very large.' Add this to the developing scarcity of water due to global warming and the prospects for a peaceful future do not bode well."
Just like anything else that causes stress, it causes people to get upset and lash out.
. . . . is there ANYTHING it can't do ???
Probably not.
Most likely it's notjust heat so much as deviation from what people find the most comfortable.
In the US, violent crime rates have been decreasing for decades, while temperatures have been breaking records.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-1
EVERYTHING is apparently related to 'global warming' - wait a minute! They slipped up there, they're supposed to say "climate change", because the climate is ALWAYS changing, so they can never be wrong, no matter what happens!
But they forgot to put 'man made' in front of 'global warming'.
There is no such thing. The entire thing is a sickening scam.
www.climatedepot.com
this is why canada is so nice!
New Orleans had to be evacuated in days.
With climate change, you are talking about sea levels rising an inch or two per DECADE. Or heat / cold profiles of an area changing also over decades. Plenty of time for people to move on if they decide they don't like whatever changes are occurring.
But most people will stay, no matter what particular climate you find "unlivable" you'll find plenty of people already living in those conditions...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Translation: I don't like what researchers say, so I'll call them idiots and poopie-heads, and then take my own head and shove it firmly up my own ass.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.