A July study claims that thousands of more people will commit suicide in the coming decades due to man-made global warming.
Published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Monday, the study found a one-degree increase in average monthly temperature correlated with suicide rate increases of 0.68 percent and 2.1 percent in the U.S. and Mexico, respectively.
The effect they found is extremely small, and in some cases, not statistically significant from zero. Still, the results were touted in media reports as evidence that increased temperatures exacerbate suicides.
The study predicts between 9,000 and 40,000 more people will off themselves by 2050 because of man-made warming — based on an extreme warming scenario that experts increasingly call “exceptionally unlikely.”
“So we take a specific location and we take a specific month, and we compare cooler versions of that month to hotter versions of that month, and we ask, ‘Are suicide rates different during those two months?’ We indeed find that they are,” lead author Marshall Burke told CNN.
“We find a very consistent relationship between temperature increases and increases in suicide risk,” said Burke, an assistant professor at Stanford University.
A lot of research has been done into suicide rates and temperature. A recent British study found that heat waves exacerbated existing mental health problems in individuals, including suicide.
But Burke’s study only looked at average monthly temperature, which does not give an indication of heat waves or other phenomena that could exacerbate suicides. Higher average temperatures in any given month could be from warmer nights, rather than scorching daytime temperatures.
Cato Institute atmospheric scientist Ryan Maue noted that correlations with monthly temperatures aren’t reliable. Maue also criticized the study’s dependence on Twitter postings to gauge “depressive” speech.
The suicide and climate change study correlates “monthly average temperature” with suicide risk — and then projects from RCP 8.5 models into 2050 — with “social media” postings
Correlating anything w/monthly temperatures is a p-hacking smorgasbord! https://t.co/dTBP70L2dt
— Ryan Maue | weathermodels.com (@RyanMaue) July 23, 2018
P-hacking refers to the reanalyzing of data until a statistically significant result is achieved. It’s become a major concern in recent years among scientists who fear the practice is damaging their credibility and leading to the hyping of bad science.
Burke’s study averaged monthly temperature correlations across the U.S., which also obscured negative relationships between suicides and temperature increases. Nevada and South Carolina, for example, saw decreases in suicide rates as temperatures increased, but those decreases are obscured in the national average.
The study also claims that temperature increases correlated with a less than one percent increase in “depressive” language on Twitter. However, those results were only significant in one coding, which then had to be adjusted for “lagged effect.”
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Hopefully
All the suicides will be on the
Global warming Hystericists.
The world and everything in it except humans are in a constant state of flux. For example: ‘Figures lie and liars figure.’ We now have CCDS – Climate Change Derangement Syndrome and TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome. Both are exactly parallel to Josef Goebbels use of the BIG LIE.
Unfortunately the alleged heat suicides won’t offset the 10’s of thousands of fuel poverty deaths per year caused by idiotic government policy built on unscientific mush .
Guess it’s just a pure coincidence that people and plants thrive in warmer climates and are virtually non-existent in the Arctic and Antarctic .
This study is a weak attempt to give the mass murders behind the largest fraud in history some distance from the harm they knowingly inflicted on people while they lined their own pockets .
Anyone seriously concerned about humans wouldn’t have enabled the biggest con job in history .
I wonder if the recent spate of articles expressing desperation over global warming is meant to incite acts of eco-terrorism . I remember that “imminent climate catastrophe” was the buzz phrase . Now it’s suicide ?
There may actually be a correlation between suicides and climate change. Loss of jobs caused by the climate change movement could cause less stable individuals to take the easy way out. Having the family finances ruined by very high energy bills cause by the climate change movement might result in some taking their own lives. Poor health caused by the inability to heat the home due to the high cost of green energy might have a similar impact. Note that all of these impacts are from the climate change movement, not climate change.
But the Eco-Wackos want fewer humans on the earth in fact Gun Control idiot David Hogg wants more Mosqiutos to wipe out Thousands of people just like many Deep Ecologists want
A sure sign climate derangement syndrome is past it’s apex . Now they just invent crap
that the last remaining MSM promoters can throw at a disinterested public . What’s next global warming causes Nazism ? How about a Bernie Saunders pitch that if people vote for him he will cool the earth . He and his communist sympathizer from NY
can pull a Venezuela . No wonder the future leader of the Democrat party, leaker Commey, is freaking out . The bankrupt party may have even gone too far left for the fifth estate to prop up .