Links tagged “crime”
- Are Climate ‘Deniers’ Anti-Women? Study: ‘Global Warming Will Cause 180,000 More Rapes by 2099’ – Can a carbon tax save you from being raped?!
How to prevent crime? 'Rein in the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing global warming in the first place.'
Controversial new research predicts that over the coming century, rising temperatures will result in more violent crime...'Police have long operated with the understanding that 'the summer is more dangerous than the winter,' explains Roman. 'To the extent that climate change causes people to be out and interacting more, there will be more crime.'
'Global warming isn't just going to melt the Arctic and flood our cities—it's also going to make Americans more likely to kill each other. That's the conclusion of a controversial new study that uses historic crime and temperature data to show that hotter weather leads to more murders, more rapes, more robberies, more assaults, and more property crimes. "Looking at the past, we see a strong relationship between temperature and crime," says study author Matthew Ranson, an economist with policy consulting firm Abt Associates. "We think that is likely to continue in the future."
Climate Depot Response:
‘If warm weather causes more crime, why the drop in US violent crime since the ’70s cooling scare?’
Climate Depot’s Rebuttal to Global Warming Causes More Crime: Morano – ‘The global warming activists have now shifted the playing field so rape and murder statistics are now used as some sort of ‘proof’ of man-made global warming’ - Statement by Climate Depot Publisher Marc Morano on new global warming/violence study: “Instead of looking at temperature data or other climate metrics to prove or disprove man-made global warming claims, the global warming activists have now shifted the playing field so rape and murder statistics are now used as some sort of ‘proof’ of man-made global warming. Global warming science has truly morphed to modern witchcraft!’ - ‘If warm weather causes more crime, why the drop in US violent crime since the ’70s cooling scare?’
- Flashback: Can a carbon tax prevent YOU from being MURDERED or RAPED?! UN IPCC’s Prof. Hsiang’s new study ‘could go a long way toward convincing people that climate change can directly affect their lives. We just need to make it all about us, and our unwillingness to get murdered’ | Climate Depot
- Flashback: A UN IPCC Scientist’s New Study! ‘Global Warming Sparks Fistfights & War, Researchers Say’: ‘Will systematically increase the risk of many types of conflict ranging from barroom brawls & rape to civil wars & international disputes’ — Climate Depot Responds | Climate Depot
- LA Times: Climate change brings more crime – Study: ‘Between 2010 & 2099, climate change can be expected to cause an additional 22,000 murders, 180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 million aggravated assaults…a 0.8% increase in cases of vehicle theft’
- Claim: Climate change a factor in Chicago’s murder rate — Former CEO of Playboy Christie Hefner: It ‘may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather’
'There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that'
