Posted on 08/01/2013 6:13:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests.
US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war.
The team says with the current projected levels of climate change, the world is likely to become a more violent place.
The study is published in Science.
Marshall Burke, from the University of California, Berkeley, 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."
The researchers looked at 60 studies from around the world, with data spanning hundreds of years.
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 US.
The report also suggests rising temperatures correlated with larger conflicts, including ethnic clashes in Europe and civil wars in Africa.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
i’d say it has more to do with the leftist / liberal policies put in place the last 50-60 years.
Because we're out working trying to make enough money to pay the air conditioning bill.
Is there ANYTHING that is not caused by globull warming?
Some day I suppose the headline will be “Rise in violence linked to anti-American, anti-Constitution LIBs being lawless”.
??? Its not white racism?
Is there ANYTHING that is not caused by globull warming?
All-pervasive white racism.
If this be true how can there be anyone left alive in Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia or Kiribati?
That’s a very dishonest piece from the BBC. “Small changes in temperature” in general don’t routinely correlate with rises in violent crime. Increases in hot weather do, and we’ve obviously been entering a cold spell, contrary to the fantasies of the AGW monkeys.
This explains irritable bowel syndrome. If this trend continues it will become militant bowel syndrome.
With greenhouse gas discharge.
Answer? Spend more of the other green..
“The study is published in Science. “
Love that British sense of humor...
well, that explains the norsemen, the Huns, the Mongols...
who writes these scientific journals?
The rise in violence is due to the people that believe in climate change arguing with the people who do not.
Exactly - the bad guys always need an excuse and someone to blame it on - it would seem that “Bush’s fault” would do so they don’t have to get “scientific” with climate change.
It also explains alex baldwin and andy dick.
Closer than any other explanation I’ve heard.....
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