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Post by msapple on Mar 13, 2014 7:19:01 GMT -5
"Climate change" is the new religion, and, as a religion needs a few things...
A deity: The climate Sinners: Us A system of law: You can do anything you want as long as it's green... or until we figure out how to make a profit off of you as well A "cause" for sin: A hotter planet causes crime! (Rape, murder, etc.) An apocalypse story: Our coming, watery demise... or ice age... warming can do both, evidently. Prophets: The gov't, the UN, and corporate science (substitute profits for prophets at will here) Preachers: You see those here on ATS all of the time... they will be on this thread soon enough, flashing meaningless stats and made up facts... NON-BELIEVERS, heretics, blasphemers!: The rest of us that see through the crap...
I will also restate what I have said so many times before... science quits being science when it becomes corporatized, subsidized, and taxable... alas, I will be branded as a "headless chicken" or whack-job... heresy, you see...
So let it be legislated, so let it be done...
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Post by redsoxfan on Mar 13, 2014 7:43:15 GMT -5
I was about to jump on the trash this lie bandwagon until I stumbled upon this Wikipedia article. This Google search also shows articles from several different years that supports it too. Hmmm, seems like heat might cause a rise in crime after all There was actually a study done in 2004 that supports this argument. Weird, but true.
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Post by monalisa on Mar 13, 2014 8:30:11 GMT -5
I can't read the rest of the paper - telling me it has to be purchased. Bit of a bummer to quote the abstract and nothing more...
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Post by redsoxfan on Mar 13, 2014 14:24:08 GMT -5
I can't read the rest of the paper - telling me it has to be purchased. Bit of a bummer to quote the abstract and nothing more... I wasn't meaning to be disingenuous ..... the abstract is all that is there without paying....it is all I could post. It's only $35 if you want to purchase ..... just kidding of course
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Post by markedman on Mar 13, 2014 14:44:07 GMT -5
So I guess we don't know if "global warming" means the Earth is heating up or cooling down in this case (c'mon we've all heard both) but I will point out (as an example) that in Alaska the reported Rape cases are the highest in the country with the percentage of Native women topping that... I think it's fair to say that Rape is a result of society, culture, community - not weather and temperature.
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Post by crimsontide on Mar 13, 2014 15:02:04 GMT -5
So if i pull off a heist and rob goldman sachs, i can just blame it on global warming and get away with it? Thanks al gore/the legendary manbearpig. I'll have to try it out when i'm in NYC.
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Post by wonderqueen on Mar 13, 2014 15:21:39 GMT -5
Global Warming is Also a Major Cause of Snow Melting . What Can be Done about that ? People Wanna Know!
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Post by illuminati on Mar 13, 2014 15:36:14 GMT -5
So this explains why Jihadies wear explosive vest in Muslim countries. All that hot weather they must be killing each other wholesale by now. Of course we can't have any form of immigration reform now, the South American countries are much hotter than the their North American counter part. That would make Hispanics much more prone to violence. Of course anything around the tropics would dangerous at best.
Lets not forget New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Parts of Utah, and Nevada will have to be cordoned off for safety reasons. We should start moving people from Dallas to Detroit where the climate is much cooler. This is going to require additional government spending to analyse Florida and crime rates along the coast.
Of course this explains why Canada is crime free. This also answers the question why they build Siberian Gulags, the cold has to be rehabilitating to the serious criminals of Russia. This should be a boon for the HVAC business.
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Post by redeyed on Mar 13, 2014 17:58:10 GMT -5
Oh c,mon it is not the average temperature but the increase in temperature. When there are heat waves people get cranky and violence generally increases during these.
Just search on heatwave and crime - there are hundreds of articles going back years.
This is OLD news and pretty obvious if you stop and think about it.
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Post by nikita on Mar 13, 2014 18:06:38 GMT -5
Haven't most forms of crime been declining in the past couple of decades, even though the earth has been warming up? Plus, the study goes on about how weather affects crime rates, but in the discussion it only mentions how temperature affects crime rate. I can understand crime being higher in sunny weather as more people tend to get drunk, especially in cultures where sunny weather is a novelty (i.e. England), however I'm pretty sure climate change is meant to lead to a greater frequency of storms as well as hot weather.
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