Posted on 01/22/2016 1:01:48 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Economists find bikers, motorcyclists and pedestrians are most at risk.
(Inside Science) -- When gasoline prices fall or the economy grows, people may have more money to spend, but there can be an unexpected downside. Traffic fatalities often increase because additional drivers take to the roads. Now, economists have established that another seemingly auspicious occurrence has a dark side: nice weather.
That's the surprising finding from a pair of economists, who investigated how climate change may affect traffic accident rates in the United States over the next century.
In their analysis, the researchers predict that as the planet warms, there will be a net increase of about 650 traffic fatalities - mostly pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists - each year in the U.S. by 2100. Their findings have not yet been formally peer-reviewed by the academic community.
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That is classic sphinx! I’ll bet you didn’t have to much research to figure that out either.
Global warming. Is there anything it can’t do?
Global Change will kill even more !!!!!
“...climate change may affect traffic accident rates in the United States...”
Especially for the poor and underage drivers.
Yep. People with the with the reasoning skills of 5 year olds are now in control of science, government, and the economy.
This report is from San Francisco, where that’s already happening. And they like it.
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