We've known for years that heat has an adverse impact on the violent crime rate. For some reason, when the temperature goes up, our tempers become as short as Katie Zacharia's tenure as press secretary. That means those more inclined toward violence will become more violent.
That's why the summer sees the most violent crime, and is likely why there's so much more violence here in the Deep South where hot can be the status quo in December.
But now, thanks to the intrepid and completely unbiased writers at The Trace, we now know what's really responsible, and that's climate change!
A new finding shared with The Trace by Climate Central, a nonprofit focused on climate change research and communication, estimates that approximately 2,000 shootings between 2021 and 2025 in the 100 U.S. cities with the most gun violence are attributable to high temperatures made more likely by climate change.
In fact, the baking July 4 weekend in Philadelphia was at least twice as likely to occur due to climate change, according to Climate Central.
And this is only the beginning. As temperatures continue to rise, even more upward pressure on gun violence is likely.
“Across all of these cities, we see that in aggregate, climate change is raising the risk of gun violence,” said Kristina Dahl, vice president for science at Climate Central. “Short of really swift and deep cuts to heat-trapping emissions globally, we expect the planet to continue to warm,” Dahl said.
The theory that increased temperatures correspond with increased violence is well established, said John Roman, a distinguished senior fellow at the University of Chicago’s NORC social research center, whom The Trace asked to review the Climate Central analysis.
Yet we've had a really, really hot summer, as my electric bills can attest, and a lot lower homicide rate. How does that remotely mesh?
Oh, worry not, because The Trace, in its typically unbiased and totally not a shill for the left in any way has an answer.
It can be confusing for observers, because this summer has seen record high temperatures but record low gun violence in many cities. But that doesn’t mean that climate change isn’t having an effect, Roman said.
“I think if we still had the same climate we had in 1980, I think we’d see even lower violence than we see today,” he said.
A convenient supposition.
Or, maybe, if we had the gun rights in 1980 that we have today, we'd have seen the homicide rate then be far lower.
Honestly, is there nothing climate change can't do? I mean other than match a single climate change model since the dawn of this farce? I mean, you'd think if they knew what they were talking about, they'd at least be able to predict things worth a damn.
But to then argue that if we had the climate we had in 1980, it would be probably be lower ignores the fact that, at least in my neck of the woods, 1980 looked to have been even hotter than 2026.
Look, I'm glad they're looking somewhere other than gun control for the roots of violent crime, but allow me to point out that this ain't it.
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