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Two new studies warn that a hotter world will be a more violent one
- wly_cdgr 5y agoI dunno that they needed to do a whole study....they could have just watched Do The Right Thing
- Pelam 5y agoOr Mad Max and Waterworld.
- the-dude 5y agoYou can't seriously recommend Waterworld.
- hairofadog 5y agoBut it has Dennis Hopper on a jet ski
- wly_cdgr 5y agoWhy not, it's better than the real USPS
- soco 5y agoYou're probably thinking of The Postman (1997) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119925/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119925/
- ourcat 5y agoOr Idiocracy.
- mrfusion 5y agoI hope it’s ok to be skeptical. Human behavior seems like quite a hard thing to predict. And mammals did thrive in the Paleocene https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_The... (I’ll show myself out)
- loopz 5y ago"The associated period of massive carbon release into the atmosphere has been estimated to have lasted from 20,000 to 50,000 years. ... Global temperatures increased by 5–8 °C." I hope we're wrong, but having this happen during a couple of hundred years together with massive human species invasion, seems to be quite another scenario.
- MillenialMan 5y agoA hypothesis is not a study.
- EForEndeavour 5y agoThis suggests you didn't read the article or the linked studies.
- MillenialMan 5y agoExtrapolating from these "studies" to this headline is ridiculous, and the effect sizes were tiny anyway. The hypothesis in the headline and the "warnings" they give (do they even mention global warming in the studies?) are not supported by the phenomenon studied. Good lord, this is such awful science, it shouldn't be on Hacker News. This website is supposed to be somewhat robust against complete garbage.
- bobthechef 5y agoThe disintegration of Western civilization and the crumbling of the American Empire could lead to an uptick in violence as ideological conflicts increase as these groups either compete for power or simply survival. Pointing to heat seems almost like exploiting a politically convenient correlation.
- slingnow 5y agoThese are the types of "studies" that drive even more people to skepticism when it comes to climate change and even science in general.
- EForEndeavour 5y agoWhat are your criticisms of the studies?
- hackeraccount 5y agoThey don't know some unknown and probably unknowable number of the variables at play and the variables they do know that don't know to the degree of precision that they pretend to. This is like studies that pretend to measure intelligence with IQ tests. They don't know what they're measuring but they have a faulty system to measure it that produces a number that's more a joke then any reflection of reality.
- rolph 5y agothe sage view of Ray Bradbury https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9945791-more-murders-are-committed-at-ninety-two-degrees-fahrenheit-than-any https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9945791-more-murders-are-co...
- BugsJustFindMe 5y ago> To help suss out cause and effect, the authors analyzed Los Angeles’s daily crime data while controlling for two key factors: whether public schools were in session on a given day and overall traffic volume on the region’s highways (a proxy for total social activity in the city). I note that they did not try to increase violence and then measure whether the temperature went up in response, which is the true way to suss out cause vs effect.