ONE of Donald Trump’s 100 wackiest ideas is that climate change is a hoax fabricated by China to harm America. “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing uncompetitive,” Trump once tweeted. He later said, unconvincingly, that he had been kidding about China, but he has emphasized that he does not believe in climate change and would end serious efforts to prevent it. That obstinacy confronts a new wave of research showing that climate change is much more harmful than we had imagined. Until now, the focus has been on rising seas, more intense hurricanes, acidification of oceans, drought and crop failures. But new studies are finding that some of the most important effects will be directly on our bodies and minds. A clever new working paper by Jisung Park, a Ph.D. student in economics at Harvard, compared the performances of New York City students on 4.6 million exams with the day’s temperature. He found that students taking a New York State Regents exam on a 90-degree day have a 12 percent greater chance of failing than when the temperature is 72 degrees. The Regents exams help determine whether a student graduates and goes to college, and Park finds that when a student has the bad luck to have Regents exams fall on very hot days, he or she is slightly less likely to graduate on time. Likewise, Park finds that when a school year has an unusual number of hot days, students do worse at the end of the year on their Regents exams, presumably because they’ve learned less. A school year with five extra days above 80 degrees leads students to perform significantly worse on Regents exams. The New York City students in Park’s study do poorly on hot days even though the majority of city schools are air-conditioned (perhaps in part because the air-conditioning often barely works). Imagine the consequences in hotter climates with less air-conditioning: The average Indian now endures about 33 days a year above 90 degrees, and that is forecast to increase by as many as 100 days by 2100. snip Even in the U.S., heat kills. A single day above 90 degrees increases the monthly mortality rate by more than 1 percent, according to research by Olivier Deschenes and other economists. We just don’t function as well when the mercury goes up. When the temperature rises above 85 degrees, Americans who work outside cut their time in the heat by about an hour. Even in auto factories, most presumably air-conditioned, a week of six days above 90 degrees reduces production by 8 percent. Perhaps more startling, rising temperatures seem to cause more violence. “The relationship is really clear,” said Edward Miguel, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied the issue. “Extremes in climate lead to more violence, more killing, more war, more land riots in Brazil, more sectarian violence in India. It’s pretty stunning how the relationship between climate and violence holds across the globe.” The starting point is that heat makes people irritable. Researchers havefound hot days linked to more angry honking in Arizona, and more road rage and car accidents in Spain. Scholars have done the math and found that on hot days a major-league baseball pitcher is more likely to retaliate for a perceived offense and deliberately hit a batter. “High temperatures,” that study finds, are “lowering inhibitions against retaliation.” On hot days, property crimes aren’t more common, but murders go up with the temperature. Likewise, researchers find that police officers are more likely to draw and fire their weapons during a training session conducted on a hot day. In Tanzania in any season, elderly women are sometimes accused of witchcraft and hacked or beaten to death. Professor Miguel has found that unusual weather linked to climate change — either drought or heavy rainfall — is associated with a doubling in the number of these “witch” killings. It appears that 2016 will be the hottest year in recorded history, and each of the first six months of this year set a record as the hottest ever — the hottest January, the hottest February, and so on. But it’s not just that the mercury is going up; fundamentally, we are creating a hotter world for which we humans are poorly adapted. So it’s time for Trump — and all Americans — to re-evaluate. Climate change isn’t a hoax, and it certainly isn’t a Chinese conspiracy. Unless we act, we’re cooked! http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/o...region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0
I think the worst kind of a lie is where someone in society whose standing is respected, say a scientist, manipulates data to arrive at a conclusion that supports their own, personal view.
Yes, every climate scientist in the world is manipulating the data to make the ice melt. You're an idiot. You must be a Trumper. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
That damn climate change caused Hillary to overheat, feel fine and proclaim that she is "healthy" then suddenly catch pneumonia! Hillary either has the worst doctor in history advising her AND OR she is a liar of the highest order! How long have people been saying that she is not healthy with people like futurecurrents saying "she is so healthy! you are a right-wing conspiracy nut!". Just admit that Hillary lied about being healthy for sometime now.I await your response telling me how mean Trump is.
1. Hillary is 100% healthy! 2. Okay, she overheated. 3. Um, she's dehydrated. 4. And by dehydrated, we mean pneumonia. 5. Er, Parkinsons.
futurecurrents is so predictable! You will never admit that Hillary has been lying about being healthy! futurescurrents thinks that Hillary's doctor should be Surgeon General! futurescurrents bites his pillow every night while crying and screaming out "why is Trump so mean! Hillary is such a nice hetero-normative female white person!".
She was healthy, until she got pneumonia. Is that so hard to fathom...Trumper? Oh wait, you're a Trumper, of course it is. Say bah.
Tim Kaine will make a great President if Hillary suffers from a serious medical problem. Tim Kaine is the symbol of Power, Strength & Vitality! Tim your masculinity levels are so high that I don't know if liberals will even be able to ever accept him as one of their own. Democrats don't even like to mention Tim Kaine due to his sheer power and presence. They do not want him to over shadow Hillary. Tim your pure power leaves me breathless, I might faint!...I am so overheated!