Crime, Hot Temperatures, and Global Warming - Any Correlation?
Perhaps you've noticed this yourself if you live in a major city.
At times when it is extremely hot out, there is more road rage, people
are more irritant, and they run more stop signs. Interestingly enough,
ask any police officer, and they will say that people do the darnedest
and stupidest things when it gets extremely hot out. Okay so, this might
be something that a global warming alarmist or climate scientists might
wish to point out to get humans to stop polluting or adding to the
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
After all, we are entering a solar maximum, which will last about 10 years. This coupled with the so-called estimated increase in Earth's surface atmospheric ambient temperatures due to global warming could be yet another challenge for humanity if those temperatures continue to increase. Any of us that had watched Al Gore's docudrama horror movie, we know the purported potential eventualities of global warming.
Now then, there was an interesting article in Homeland Security News on July 16, 2012 titled; "Will rising temperatures lead to rising crime rates?" which stated;
"General Strain Theory has become one of the leading explanations for crime, and Emory University's Professor Robert Agnew, has become its chief architect; he argues that rising temperatures will lead to more strains - increased temperatures, heat waves, natural disasters, serious threats to livelihood (farming, herding, fishing), forced migrations on a massive scale, and social conflicts arising as nations and groups compete for increasingly scarce food, fresh water, and fuel - and more strains invariably lead to rising crime rates."
Sure all that makes sense, but let's hold short on blaming Global Warming Theory that mankind's CO2 is causing the rise in temperatures. In actuality, if the Earth's atmosphere did increase in temperature, there would be less polar ice, more vegetation, and therefore a greater abundance of life and proliferation of new species, and populations of those species around the globe. You see, warming periods are much better for life on earth, at least the kind of life we think about than ice ages or cooling periods.
However, it is true that human behavior, crime, and hot temperatures do have at least some correlation in observation and experience out here in the real world. Should this be something we might be concerned about? Well, if you are a city that has to afford expensive policing equipment and a police force, and pay those union wages, it is something that you should consider, especially if you are a fervor believer in the theory on global warming. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
After all, we are entering a solar maximum, which will last about 10 years. This coupled with the so-called estimated increase in Earth's surface atmospheric ambient temperatures due to global warming could be yet another challenge for humanity if those temperatures continue to increase. Any of us that had watched Al Gore's docudrama horror movie, we know the purported potential eventualities of global warming.
Now then, there was an interesting article in Homeland Security News on July 16, 2012 titled; "Will rising temperatures lead to rising crime rates?" which stated;
"General Strain Theory has become one of the leading explanations for crime, and Emory University's Professor Robert Agnew, has become its chief architect; he argues that rising temperatures will lead to more strains - increased temperatures, heat waves, natural disasters, serious threats to livelihood (farming, herding, fishing), forced migrations on a massive scale, and social conflicts arising as nations and groups compete for increasingly scarce food, fresh water, and fuel - and more strains invariably lead to rising crime rates."
Sure all that makes sense, but let's hold short on blaming Global Warming Theory that mankind's CO2 is causing the rise in temperatures. In actuality, if the Earth's atmosphere did increase in temperature, there would be less polar ice, more vegetation, and therefore a greater abundance of life and proliferation of new species, and populations of those species around the globe. You see, warming periods are much better for life on earth, at least the kind of life we think about than ice ages or cooling periods.
However, it is true that human behavior, crime, and hot temperatures do have at least some correlation in observation and experience out here in the real world. Should this be something we might be concerned about? Well, if you are a city that has to afford expensive policing equipment and a police force, and pay those union wages, it is something that you should consider, especially if you are a fervor believer in the theory on global warming. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Policing Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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