Heat Crime
Junk scientists claim that manmade global warming is responsible for snowstorms, windstorms, hurricanes, tornados, volcanoes, tsunamis, locusts, famine, drought, fire, plague, pestilence, and padlocked ski resorts.
Now you can add: crime. As reported by The Los Angeles Times, a new study contends that “climate change” will trigger exploding lawlessness. The study, published in The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management — one of my favorite journals — merged the fbi crime database and global climate models (which, as we know, are never wrong). Voilà: a prediction that through 2099, global warming 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 theft” — at a projected “social cost” of $38 billion to $115 billion. In other words, they pulled the numbers out of their rear ends. But here’s my question: If global warming causes crime to skyrocket, shouldn’t lack of warming cause crime to plummet? So why didn’t this winter’s Polar Vortex cut crime to zero in Detroit and Chicago? Hmm?
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