Global Warming To Increase Murder, Rape, And Violent Crime Rates

Global warming has been blamed for “extreme” weather, animal extinctions, increased suicide rates, and just about anything negative that happens under the sun.

In fact, back in 2012 the main stream media even linked global warming to the record breaking homicide total (over 520) in the city of Chicago.

“For 2012, Chicago homicides are up 17 percent over 2011. The prevailing theory is that unseasonably warm weather in the early part of the year led to a spike in the murder rate.”
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Now the Hamilton Spectator is echoing that ideology by publishing this story.

Climate change brings more crime

” A new study broadens a notion held by the earliest criminologists: Periods of higher temperatures—on an hour-by-hour or week-to-week basis—are likely to produce more crime.

The study by Matthew Ranson of Abt Associates, a research and consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass., suggests global warming will trigger more U.S. crimes including murders and rapes over the next century, with social costs estimated to run as high as $115 billion.

Between 2010 and 2099, climate change can be expected to 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, the study published this week in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management says.

Compared with the number of crimes expected to occur during this period in the absence of climate change, these figures represent a 2.2 percent increase in murders, a 3.1 percent increase in cases of rape, a 2.3 percent increase in aggravated assaults, a 1.2 percent increase in simple assaults, a 1 percent increase in robberies, a 0.9 percent increase in burglaries, a 0.5 percent increase in cases of larceny and a 0.8 percent increase in cases of vehicle theft, the study says.

The social costs of these increases would be roughly $38 billion to $115 billion, based on dollar values of per-offense losses established by earlier research.

“A 1 percent to 3 percent increase in a particular crime may seem modest,” Ranson said in an interview. “But for victims, survivors and law enforcement, the burden of those numbers can be very substantial.”
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There are only a couple of problems with this theory.

We are being told that global warming is getting worse by the day. That temperatures have been steadily on the rise for the last 3 decades. Yet Canada’s crime rates are currently at the lowest levels since the 1970′s. If there was a correlation between warming and increased crime. Would we not be seeing it right now?

Secondly, how sure are we that temperatures are and will continue to rise?

It is an undisputed fact that global temperatures have remained fairly steady for the last 17 years. Leading to some of the most prominent global warming advocates to retract some of their previous assessments.

James Lovelock, the environmental scientist responsible for the Gaia theory has now stated.

“‘The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing,’ he told ‘We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear cut, but it hasn’t happened.

‘The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world.

“[The temperature] has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.”
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The global warming lobby has been hard at work, trying to weakly link man made warming to just about any “scary” scenario that it can. With the main stream media blindly parroting with out doing any due diligence.