Global Warming May Harm Children for Life

MIT Technology Review ^ | December 4, 2017 | by James Temple

[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 individual’s 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 don’t 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.

[hal ogen]

Easy solution to the leftist dilemma: tell them to dress lightly.

[Mears]

Thanks—— Jonathan Gruber,a detestable man.

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! /pro-abortion Looney Left

[Libloather]

...and can trigger greater violence.

It turned Algore into a Sex Poodle.

[Trillian]

It’s easy to call BS on this one too. They hate children.