Posted on 12/05/2017 9:48:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A growing body of research concludes that rising global temperatures increase the risk of heat stress and stroke, decrease productivity and economic output, widen global wealth disparities, and can trigger greater violence.
Now a new study by researchers at Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury suggests that even short periods of extreme heat can carry long-term consequences for children and their financial future. Specifically, heat waves during an individuals early childhood, including the period before birth, can affect his or her earnings three decades later, according to the paper, published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Every day that temperatures rise above 32 ˚C, or just shy of 90 ˚F, from conception to the age of one is associated with a 0.1 percent decrease in average income at the age of 30.
The researchers dont directly tackle the tricky question of how higher temperatures translate to lower income, noting only that fetuses and infants are especially sensitive to hot temperatures because their thermoregulatory and sympathetic nervous systems are not fully developed.
The good news, at least for certain nations and demographic groups, is that air-conditioning nearly eliminates this observed effect, based on the authors' analysis of U.S. Census data that captures how air-conditioning penetration increased in U.S. counties over time. But that could point to one more way that rising global temperatures will disproportionally harm impoverished nations, or perhaps already have.
(Excerpt) Read more at technologyreview.com ...
“Global Warming May Harm Children for Life”
It “may”.
I “may” have monkeys fly out of my butt, too.
And air conditioning makes you rich.
So Capitalism tempered by Christian ethics is global warming’s nemesis. Got it.
Outlaw SUMMER and abort Mother Nature immediately!
Or it may not harm anyone. I will go with my guess.
They want your money—no kidding about that.
What???
Two words: Confirmation & Bias
That would be Jonathan Gruber.
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How do we know since there isn’t any global warming?
Well played sir!
How many children does abortion harm?
I hear northern canada and siberia are nice [and cool] - let them move there!
Goebbels was a rank amateur compared to these guys.
Tests were run surveying children who were subjected to sustained temps of 120F. Results were conclusive. The children suffered substantially from prolonged extremely high temperatures.
Is this from The Onion?
Lack of a water and electricity infrastructure is more harmful to children than changing weather patterns.
When it comes to weather patterns humans are resilient and able to adapt, and more efficiently so than mitigating against non-existent, or too costly sources of energy or potable water.
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