People don’t work as hard on hot days – or on a warming planet (AGW FUD from the Compost)

The Washington Compost ^ | December 15,2014 | Chris Mooney

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The principal argument against taking strong action to curtail the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change has long been that it will be economically costly. By putting a price on carbon, goes the logic, people will spend more for gas, more for home heating -- more for many things in the economy, given the dominance of fossil energy in our lives.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They will NEVER give up.

[MNDude]

actually, they are right that typically cultures from warmer regions tend to be lazier than those that are cold.

[slumber1]

I was going to write a response but it’s too hot. I think I’ll take a break.

[jmcenanly]

We don’t work too well when we’re cold either.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

So why, in the past when it was much warmer than it is now, like in the Roman and Medieval warming periods, did economic activity and human expansion go through the roof? Why did it plunge when the Ice Ages came?

[Tenacious 1]

they are right that typically cultures from warmer regions tend to be lazier than those that are cold.

I hesitate to give any validity to anything suggesting links presented in the article. So I would look for some convincing data that shows "typically cultures from warmer regions tend to be lazier than those that are cold."

[LauraJean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXxL2K3_-4c
Not a new problem.

[lavaroise]

We all know they want us to work in Siberia for them. It is so convenient to make convicts out of everyone and benefiting from their labor when a retard incapable of developing technology.

[Peter ODonnell]

Somehow I believe this explains Obama completely.

[Timocrat]

So that’s why the economic growth in Texas is so much worse than in the rust belt. Oh wait there....

[onedoug]

One would think they’d become therapeutically depressed.

[Rodamala]

"Come on, boys! The way you're lolly-gaggin' around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was 120 degrees!"

"It can't be more than 114!"

[grania]

typically cultures from warmer regions tend to be lazier than those that are cold

It's Darwin. Survival skills in warmer climates are different from those in colder climates. Northerners worked harder and invented stuff to cope with the climate. Warmer climates favored people who worked at more leisurely pace, in groups, hunting, fishing, farming etc.

[Dr. Thorne]

[PATRIOT1876]

The hilarity from the nutjobs that STILL believe in the global warming myth become more and more comical the more they try to control people with fear.

Sorry greenies, most people don't REALLY want Socialism. By now, I think most people are onto your scam.

Did anyone hear about the GreenPeace knuckleheads stomping around on the NASCA lines?!?!

Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/11/us-climatechange-lima-greenpeace-idUSKBN0JP05S20141211

You can't write ironic comedy as funny as what the AGW lunatics come up with when they are pretending to be serious...