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To: Taro who wrote (816756)	11/10/2014 4:07:36 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584759

Have you ridden the NY City subway lately?

To: Taro who wrote (816756)	11/10/2014 8:44:16 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1584759

He might be right. Did he suggest the temperature? Climate and Conflict Marshall Burke, Solomon M. Hsiang, Edward Miguel nber.org According to a new review of 55 separate studies, there is a meaningful connection between climate change and human violence. The working paper, put out by researchers with the National Bureau of Economic Research, is what’s called a meta-analysis: a study of studies, in effect. After going through numerous analyses of the relationship between climate change and violence in various settings, the researchers settled on 55 of the most rigorous pieces of work. They then evaluated the picture painted by those studies, and worked to amalgamate their findings into a single statistical result. They looked at conflicts between individuals — “domestic violence, road rage, assault, murder, and rape” — as well as conflicts between larger human groups — “riots, ethnic violence, land invasions, gang violence, civil war and other forms of political instability, such as coups.” The end result? The researchers determined that changes in drought and rainfall patterns, but especially increases in temperature, all have a meaningful link to increases in both forms of violence. “We find that deviations from moderate temperatures and precipitation patterns systematically increase the risk of conflict, often substantially, with average effects that are highly statistically significant,” the researchers wrote. thinkprogress.org