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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: 1) by dx3bydt3 on Sunday March 02 2014, @03:28AM
I wonder if this trend depends on some thresholds of temperature being met. i.e. above freezing, or above "room temperature", and does humidity contribute?
(Score: 3, Informative) by JimmyCrackCorn on Sunday March 02 2014, @05:20AM
no.
the colder it gets the more babies nine months later...so more sex when cold.m ost-here-.html [livescience.com]
http://www.livescience.com/32728-baby-month-is-al
Warm winter may have below norm baby production, which would not offset the increase from heat murderers.
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(Score: 1) by Aighearach on Sunday March 02 2014, @12:19PM
Traditionally 92F gives the peak crime rate at night. Too hot to sleep, not too hot to cause trouble.