Posted on 08/14/2018 6:39:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
On excessively hot days, there are more likely to be fatal car accidents and food safety problems, and police officers and government food inspectors tend to do less of their duties, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The MIT scientists, who analyzed data from across the United States, suggest that if the climate continues to change, by 2050 -- and in another 50 or so years beyond that -- our world may be less safe than it is today.
"The crux of the idea -- which is that weather affects how we perform our duties and how we go about our daily lives and the risks that we experience -- is indeed simplistic," said Nick Obradovich, co-author of the study and a research scientist at MIT's Media Lab.
What is not at all simple is that he and his colleagues used a "massive amount of data" to understand how temperature affects crucial government work, and this is the "first time, to our knowledge, that's been done."
"What you see is that fatal crash incidence goes up in hot temperatures," Obradovich said. Here, an average temperature range of 30° C to 40° C (or 86° F to 104° F) produces an amplified risk of fatal car crashes of half a percentage point, the study finds.
"It also goes up in particularly cold temperatures, but you see a sharper increase in the hot temperature range," he said.
Ultimately, the point of the study is not to scare people but to understand exactly what the effects of extreme temperatures may be, Obradovich said, "so that we can look for opportunities to potentially adapt or to fix things that might go wrong under a changing climate."
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Climate change is code for illegal aliens.
“On excessively hot days, there are more likely to be fatal car accidents and food safety problems, and police officers and government food inspectors tend to do less of their duties, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “
So in the SUMMER, make sure they drink more fluids and wear lighter clothing, you blithering idiot!!!
Yes, but there are positive effects also: more unicorn sightings!
Yes, but there are positive effects also: more unicorn sightings!
Humans cannot stop the climate from changing.
The climate has always changed.
We’re just along for the ride.
I am certain that this is not “agenda science” and the modeling and results are valid and repeatable. /NOT
Even Goebbels would be embarrassed by this stuff.
These “studies” need to
JUST
STOP
We have more crashes when it’s hot, because it’s summer and people are travelling etc.
We have more crashes when it’s cold, because snow and ice.
Amazing how some people are so smart they’re stupid.
And climate change also causes lumbago, gout, dropsy, the vapors, miasma and consumption. Don’t forget painful rectal itch. It causes that too.
“Oh, it’s so hot outside, I think I’ll ignore the roach droppings in the mashed potatoes and the chicken that’s been out of the reefer for two days.. You pass with a grade of 100%!”
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Climate change is code for illegal aliens.
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Right. Illegal aliens are making the country less safe right now, not in 100 years (maybe).
Both last year and this year the second half of summer is relatively mild here in Maryland, in the 80s and plenty of rain.
It could be in the 90s in late July and August.
Climate change is code for gas chambers.
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