Romney’s current position on man-made global warming: ‘I am not a scientist myself, but my best assessment of the data is that the world is getting warmer…’
‘– and I believe we must support continued debate and investigation within the scientific community. Ultimately, the science is an input to the public policy decision; it does not dictate a particular policy response’
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Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: Romney vs. Obama in the ScienceDebate: ‘Romney’s reply on climate change is far more substantive than that from President Obama –call me surprised’
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Voters Abandon Global Warming Fears
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Team Obama Labels Romney’s Mockery Of Climate Action ‘Terrifying’
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Quick, pass carbon tax & prevent rape/murder! New Warmist study: ‘Between 2010 & 2099, climate change will cause an additional 30,000 murders, 200,000 cases of rape, 1.4’
Crime, Weather, and Climate Change
Matthew Ranson
Abt Associates, Inc.
July 17, 2012
Harvard Kennedy School M-RCBG Associate Working Paper Series No. 8
Abstract:
This paper estimates the impact of climate change on the prevalence of criminal activity in the United States. The analysis is based on a 50-year panel of monthly crime and weather data for 2,972 U.S. counties. I identify the effect of weather on monthly crime by using a semi-parametric bin estimator and controlling for county-by-month and county-by-year
fixed effects. The results show that temperature has a strong positive effect on criminal behavior, with little evidence of lagged impacts. Between 2010 and 2099, climate change will cause an additional 30,000 murders, 200,000 cases of rape, 1.4 million aggravated assaults, 2.2 million simple assaults, 400,000 robberies, 3.2 million burglaries, 3.0 million cases of larceny, and 1.3 million cases of vehicle theft in the United States.
More here.
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Democratic Party Platform: ‘We know that global climate change is one of the biggest threats of this generation – an economic, environmental, and national security catastrophe in the making’
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GOP platform highlights the party’s abrupt shift on energy, climate
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Richard Black Resigns From The BBC: ‘Black’s Whitewash Was he pushed? Did my work to highlight his close relationship with activist groups help? Probably not’
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UN IPCC’s Richard Tol: ‘Stern made elementary errors, in the economics, in the mathematics, and in the computations’
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Stern review ‘a report on a complex subject written in a short time by a group of novices’ — A kind description!’
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