Posted on 09/15/2019 9:03:57 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Forbes magazine has attributed a whole new list of negative effects to “climate change,” including lost productivity, violent crime, and “cognitive decline.”
Climate change has become the bogeyman responsible for all the world’s ills, from racism to mass migration, but in its new article, Forbes has arguably taken climate hysteria to a whole new level.
Citing economist Marshall Burke, Forbes writer Jeff McMahon says that climate change “has already cost the U.S. economy $1 trillion,” but this is only the tip of the iceberg, since “that cost will rise to $5 trillion by 2050.”
Mr. McMahon goes on to list eight “unexpected” effects of climate change, the first of which is “lost productivity” since “economic output falls in hot years as compared to cooler years.”
Closely related to lost productivity is “cognitive decline,” which means that “people perform office tasks less effectively, and kids learn less and score worse on standardized tests” when it is hot out.
“Hot temperatures literally make us dumber,” McMahon says, again citing Mr. Burke.
Third on the list of surprising side effects of climate change is “violent crime,” due to the fact that “crime spikes during heat waves.”
Statistics show that “violent assault, sexual violence, and homicide all increase on days or months where temperatures are above normal,” McMahon asserts.
Not only violent crime toward others, but also “suicide” can be blamed on climate change, McMahon continues, going so far as to prophecy that “future warming could lead to tens of thousands of additional suicides in the US by mid-century.”
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The suicide thing I can believe. Most of the hyperventilating, hysterical climate types seem to generally be on the edge of sanity to begin with...
It’s tough being Chicken Little.
Well, the media and academia manufactured climate change hysteria probably is causing sufficient emotional trauma, especially in children, to have a negative impact on their mental health. It is the largest scale example of child abuse known to man outside of the abortion holocaust. They are murdering and terrorizing children in the name of saving mother earth. And they think they are the enlightened ones.
Forbes used to be a respectable middle-of-the-road magazine once upon a time. When did it become a Democratic party mouth organ?
Ever since the onset of the TDS pandemic.
“Hot temperatures literally make us dumber,” McMahon says,
“So that’s why we need to import more people from equatorial and sub-Saharan countries. They’re the only ones we can count on to vote for Democrats.”
Globull waming causes
Autism
Infidelity
Adultery
Crime
Ingrown toenails
Balding
Headaches
Car accidents
Makes politicians lie
Earthquakes
Hurricanes
Full moons
Televangelists asking for money
I blame my sibling rivalries on globull warming
Just Biden, maybe
“economic output falls in hot years as compared to cooler years.”
Fascinating
What fever swamp did Forbes wander into? Climate Change in and of itself, would not have that effect on most humans. But getting into a lather over how it “might” have a negative effect, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and a few do start going off the rails.
Nothing’s either good or bad, it’s thinking makes it so.
Climate change causes bad breath AND toe fungus too...
Has McMahon accounted for marijuana in his calculations?
Forbes used to be a great magazine , especially when Malcom Forbes ran it. I took it for many years, but I finally canceled it just was no longer very good.
The Forbes’ family sold out several years ago to a Chinese company and since then it has really gone downhill.
There must be a cognitive decline for so many people to believe this bullshit.
Half the American population and more than half the European has descended into mass stupidity and madness and are intent on committing mass suicide.
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Sadly, you appear to be correct.
People who say they believe in man-made climate change are idiots, liars, or both.
What’s happening is explained in the first few minutes of Idiocracy.
It's become for of a Cosmopolitan-type style and fashion magazine about billionaires.
Good, so that explains why the disease and crime rate in Phoenix are so much higher than those of Chicago and why productivity in Chicago is way higher than in Phoenix. NOT! Similarly, crime and disease in hot Sacramento are way higher than in cool San Francisco and nobody can produce a thing in Sacramento compared to those industrious worker bees in San Francisco. NOT! And why Chicago is at peace in winter probably because people are just too busy productively and efficiently cranking out goods and services for their fellow man. NOT!
All complete nonsense.
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