Center for American Progress’ Christie Hefner: Climate change a factor in Chicago’s murder rate

She said it before she denied it and then admitted it.

“There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that.”

Watch the video at the Daily Caller.

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3 Responses to Center for American Progress’ Christie Hefner: Climate change a factor in Chicago’s murder rate

  1. Some people get more irritable during warmer weather and street gangs are more active when it’s warmer, at least to a point. But without a weather trend, you can’t trend the violence against the weather trend.
    It would be interesting to take several large cities and look at the rate of violent crime against temps. I think there are too many factors to really make a valid correlation, but it might be curvilinear — that is, violence increases in street activity until it’s too dang hot for the hoods to go outside and then it falls off again. That’s plausible but I don’t know of any evidence that supports it.

  2. Besides, the Center “for” American Progress is against both America and Progress.

  3. And does bad weather simply postpone the violence?

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