Global warming can lead to increased violence in human beings - dnaindia.com

WASHINGTON: A new research has shown that as the earth's average temperature rises, so does human "heat" in the form of violent tendencies, which links global warming with increased violence in human beings.

Using US government data on average yearly temperatures and the number of violent crimes between 1950 and 2008, the researchers estimate that if the annual average temperature in the US increases by 4.4 degree Celsius, the yearly murder and assault rate will increase by 34 per 100,000 people - or 100,000 more per year in a population of 305 million.

While the global warming science has recently come under fire, the main premise behind the Iowa State researchers' research paper is irrefutable.

Guest commentary: Global warming one big snow job | thetowntalk.com | The Town Talk

As Banquo warned Macbeth after they heard the predictions of the three witches: "Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequences."

The honest trifle: World temperatures have been rising since the 1850s. But, and there's always a "but," the world was just emerging from a 500-year cold snap called the Little Ice Age. In the year 1000 the world was as warm, or warmer, than today, a fact recently, if grudgingly, admitted by Dr. Phil Jones, who is at the center of the "climategate" scandal.

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In the past 12 months, climate change denial has made something of a comeback. In the US, attacks on science are reaching a fever-pitch.

Hamilton explained that this is far from accidental. Climate change denying institutes and think tanks receive huge funding from fossil fuel corporations and other vested interests.

“The attack on climate science has been orchestrated, relentless and effective”, he told the meeting.

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Milne expanded further on the climate denialists’ campaign. She said: “The old vested interests have fought like partisans.

“These people had money, they organised, and they organised globally.”

Milne mapped out the strategy of the denial campaign: first, to cast doubt on the science as something irrational, dogmatic and religious; second, repeat the mantra the public will be worse off if action for a safe climate is taken.

She said the climate movement must respond by stating and restating that we must accept the science and condemn climate change denial as the irrational, dogmatic religion.
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While numbers were down on the 2009 Climate Action Summit, this year’s event represented a step forward for the grassroots climate action movement.