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Friday, 30 September 2016

Climate change is the reason why we’re angry, violent, and your kids’ maths grades aren’t high enough

Climate change affects more than our closets, agricultural produce, and children’s’ future, according to a piece by Bloomberg’s Eric Roston based on a University of California Berkeley paper. Climate change already retards economic growth by 0.25% annually, a figure that may grow to 0.28% in the future. Roston argues that heat and violence are linked, with Twitter users reportedly using more profanity in their posts when based in warmer temperatures, which he attributes to a significant difference in users’ happiness scores. The difference in scores “during 60F to 70F weather and 80F to 90F weather was similar to the difference in people’s moods on Sundays vs. Mondays,” he writes, adding that higher temperatures could even lead to higher rates of criminal behavior and children’s math grades allegedly drop as the temperature rises.

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