National Geographic Warns Global Warming Leads to Increased Violence... Possibly Even 'Genocide'

Newsbusters ^ | 03/26/10 | Anthony Kang

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On March 24, Ker Than argued in National Geographic that "Global warming could make the world a more violent place, because higher temperatures increase human aggression and create volatile situations."

Reporting on the findings of a new study released last week, Than repeated the study authors' estimate of increase in violence as temperatures climb: "[I]f the average temperature in the U.S. increases by 8 degrees Fahrenheit, the country's murder and assault rate will jump by about a hundred thousand cases a year."

Than also used temperature projections from the UN's IPCC, which has recently been forced to admit "flaws" in its reports since the ClimateGate scandal broke in November 2009.

"A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected that global surface temperatures could rise by 2 to 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit" by 2100, he wrote without mentioning any of the criticisms of the IPCC or their own admission of problematic data.

[Dallas59]

Are they still biting that hook?

[thulldud]

Tarring and feathering is “violence”, right?

[capt. norm]

These "studies" always start with their unquestioned assumption that global is a real threat and they build their scare stories from that point on.

[Sherman Logan]

Curious how they explain the Vikings and Mongols.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Global warming could make the world a more violent place”...

Obama beat global warming to it.....

[EdReform]

"Environmentalism is instinctively and relentlessly illiberal, and it is doing more to inculcate people with fear, self-loathing and a religious-style sense of meekness than any piece of anti-terror legislation ever could. If you believe in freedom, you must reject it."

-- Brendan O'Neill, Greens are the enemies of liberty, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 15, 2008

[Flycatcher]

Well, yes, it's true.

When it's hot, sometimes I have an ice cold beer.

And sometimes I kill an entire race of people.

I could go either way...

[sodpoodle]

Well that makes perfect sense. This freezing winter will probably result in another baby boom to compensate for the genocidal violence.

IMHO I think their IPCC brains have definitely overheated and will soon explode - so global warming is actually a good thing.

[Tarpon]

Yes it does. The very first statist greenie weenies were the NAZIs and look what happened ...

The NAZIs also were among the first with free national health care.

You get the feeling statists and their policies leads to horror and ruin?

[ProudFossil]

Boy I am glad I don’t live in the Caribbean with all its death rate from violence, i.e. Grand Cayman, St. Lucia, etc. They must have the most violence in the Americas, (except for Detroit or Philadelphia). And just think of poor Natalie Holloway. She should have spent spring break in Barrow, Alaska, and not close to the Equator.

[oh8eleven]

National Geographic Warns Global Warming Leads to Increased Violence
I thought it was the "gangster gene ..."

"A study of thousands of teenagers showed those with the gene were twice as likely to join a gang and
those already in a gang would be four times more likely to use guns or knives."

Does this mean that the "disillusioned" utes with the gangster gene - and exposed to Globull Warming - are in double jeopardy? Poooor babies.

[Altura Ct.]

LOL!

It is a real dilemma. Beer or Genocide? Decisions, decisions.

[Nick Danger]

A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected that global surface temperatures could rise by 2 to 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit" by 2100

Even if you believe every single claim about global warming happening (it's not, the Earth has been cooling for ten years) and being man-made (doubtful given the limited role CO2 plays in the process, and the limited fraction of CO2 caused by humans), your crap detector should still go off when they start talking about events in the year 2100.

Does anyone believe that the burning of fossil fuels will still be a major component of our energy supply in 2100? Surely we will have figured out fusion long before then.

[rockrr]

“Global warming could make the world a more violent place, because higher temperatures increase human aggression and create volatile situations.”

Thank goodness that it is a fraud then!

[VeniVidiVici]

Reporting on the findings of a new study released last week, Than repeated the study authors' estimate of increase in violence as temperatures climb: "[I]f the average temperature in the U.S. increases by 8 degrees Fahrenheit, the country's murder and assault rate will jump by about a hundred thousand cases a year."

Well the enviroNazi, zero population growth atheists should be ecstatic about this.

[longfellow]

it’s completely true, when al bore started pitching this i wanted to put my carbon footprint up his @ss.

[Dr. Ursus]

This make me so hot under the collar that I could just.....

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[CedarDave]

National Geographic pushes the global warming crapola every chance they get. If they can fit it into a program they will. Brainwashing of the masses...