Climate Change causes violence!!
A new study connects rising world temperatures with aggressive acts of violence and even war — but experts in the causes of war gave the report a chilly reception.
For the paper, researchers analyzed 60 studies on historic empire collapses, recent wars, violent crime rates in the United States, lab simulations that tested police decisions on when to shoot and even cases where pitchers threw deliberately at batters in baseball. They found a common thread over centuries: Extreme weather — very hot or dry — means more violence.
The authors say the results show strong evidence that climate can promote conflict.
Wow, these guys need to start growing long beards, wearing robes, and carrying hand-painted signs!
H/T Mrs. Weer’d
Weer’d, that last sentence is an absolutely brilliant way to sum up the entirety of the climate change crowd.
Well, historically, it IS true. However, I doubt there are a whole lot of nomadic steppe raiders who are going to be pushing into the fertile lowlands, causing a giant wave motion that will result in waves of slightly more settled barbarians from the last dry cycle to overrun the civilized cities and conquer the rulers (who are decended from the dry cycle before last). . .