Global Warming Could Lead To More Violence And

 Global Warming Could Lead To More Violence
And Wars
By PJ Rivera | First Posted: Aug 14, 2013 12:45 PM EDT
Tags global warming , global warming effects , human behavior
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Scientists stated before that global warming could lead to environmental disaster and
catastrophe, but could it also affect human behavior?
In a new study that was published in this month's edition of the journal "Science", a team of
experts said that they have found evidence linking climatic events to the rise in the number of
human conflicts in the major regions of the world.
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According to the study led by Solomon Hsiang of the
University Of California Berkeley, 60 previous studies
on the subject gave them evidences that global warming could affect behavior of people, which
could mean more wars and violence in the future.
"A rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by
climatic changes. Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history,
political science, and psychology, we assemble and analyze the 60 most rigorous quantitative
studies and document, for the first time, a remarkable convergence of results. We find strong
causal evidence linking climatic events to human conflict across a range of spatial and temporal
scales and across all major regions of the world," wrote Hsiang, along with co­authors Marshall
Burke and Edward Miguel.
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Researchers analyzed 60 previous studies, including
Berkeley arrest records.
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studies involving the fall of empires throughout history,
along with recent wars and crime rates in the United
States. They also considered the relation of the
weather in police officers' decision to shoot a criminal
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After careful and thorough analysis, analysts allegedly
found out that extreme weather leads to aggressive
and violent behavior, which also means that the hotter
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The results served as a warning to all people, but
scientists also pointed out that while they are quite
sure with their conclusion, there are still several
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in temperature.
Hsiang pointed out that technological development,
life expectancy, and global connectivity should also be
considered. This statement led to criticism on the research.
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Edward Carr, a tenured associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of
South Carolina, said that the results of the research are not earth­shattering at all.
"The Hsiang, et al paper bears little resemblance to the media stories written about it. It makes
very measured, fairly contained claims about climate change and conflict that, if represented
accurately in the media, probably would not have made for interesting stories," Carr wrote on his
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