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Violent Crime Rates in Portland Continue to Remain Low
2013-08-05 20:41:15| PortlandOnline
Down 9% in 2013
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Climate change linked to violent behaviour
2013-08-02 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bring on the cool weather climate change is predicted to cause extreme weather, more intense storms, more frequent floods and droughts, but could it also cause us to be more violent with one another? A new study from scientists in the US controversially draws a link between increased rates of domestic violence, assault and other violent crimes and a warming climate. That conflict could be a major result of global warming has long been accepted. As climate change makes vulnerable parts of the...
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Researchers find warming climate can cause more violent behavior
2013-08-02 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: From road rage to riots, scientists say they now have clear evidence that rising temperatures lead to spikes in violence. In a study published yesterday in the journal Science, researchers crunched reams of data on conflict and climate from all over the world, dating from 10,000 B.C. to the present. They found "remarkably similar" behavioral changes showing that whether the subject is domestic violence in Australia, peasant rebellion in China or property crimes in the United States, blood seems...
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Global Warming Could Cause 50 Percent Increase in Violent Conflict
2013-08-01 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: This week the exiled head of the Syrian opposition movement said he would meet representatives of President Bashar al-Assad in Geneva, a promising turn for a conflict that has left 100,000 dead, including many civilians, since spring 2011. It has been a long, bitter battle, but for many Syrians one root of the violence stretches back to several years before al-Assads troops began picking off anti-government protestors. Beginning in 2006, a prolonged, severe drought decimated farmland, spiked food...
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Our Hotter, Wetter, More Violent Future
2013-08-01 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Earths atmosphere seems to have found a way to get back at the human race. For almost three centuries, we humans have been filling the air with carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. Now, it turns out, the climate change these emissions have wrought is turning people against one another. So says a review, published today, of 60 studies on how climate change helps spark conflict throughout the world. The researchers found a surprisingly close link between climate change and civil...
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