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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Climate Change Will Cause Rape and Murder and Assault and Robbery and
Larceny and Make People Steal Your Car
By Charles C. W. Cooke
February 27, 2014 10:04 AM
This, from Mother Jones, is what people who are losing the argument look
like:
Study: Global Warming Will Cause 180,000 More Rapes by 2099
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.”
Just how much more crime can we expect? Using the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change’s warming projections, Ranson calculated that from
2010 to 2099, climate change will “cause” an additional “22,000 murders,
180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 million aggravated assaults, 2.3 million simple
assaults, 260,000 robberies, 1.3 million burglaries, 2.2 million cases of
larceny, and 580,000 cases of vehicle theft” in the US.
Americans, who are apparently tired of everything being blamed on climate
change, are beginning to tune out. A quick look at Gallup and you’ll see
that the environment doesn’t register as an issue that voters especially
care about, and, too, that the number of people who say they are convinced
by the endless claims of Science! has diminished dramatically in the last
few years. And so, instead of toning down the eschatological predictions, we
’re starting to see even more ridiculousness. Have we really reached, ”Hey
, pay us some attention or your car will be stolen!”?
This is somewhat reminiscent of last year’s gun control debate, during
which the advocates of stricter regulations became increasingly manic as
they lost the public’s interest and trust. It’s classic and predictable
stuff: When your campaign is based upon scaring people into acquiescence,
the temptation when losing is always to throw out more monsters and more
special effects. Or, as the NOAA’s Martin Hoerling put it, to recruit to
the cause “some spell conjured upon us by great external forces,” like “
the monster flicks of Universal Studios fame!”
As I wrote earlier in the year, if the Left really wants to regain some
ground on this topic, it’ll try some humility. |
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