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Climate Change Kills the Mood: Economists Warn of Less Sex on a Warmer Planet
2015-11-02 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Climate change has been blamed for many things over the years. Never, until now, has anyone thought it was possible to see it as a kind of contraceptive. Hot weather leads to diminished coital frequency," according to a new working paper put out by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Three economists studied 80 years of U.S. fertility and temperature data and found that when its hotter than 80 degrees F, a large decline in births follows within 10 months. Would-be parents tend not to make...
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