Claim: Global Warming will Cause a Surge in Crime
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Essay by Eric Worrall
“… people spend more time outside … they are more likely to go to the beach or to the park … this means that their home will be unattended …”
Crime-ate change: Shock link between rising temperatures and rising crime rates
As temperatures continue to soar, a sobering study has found climate change will be responsible for 72,000 additional crimes a year in Australia.
Adelaide Lang
January 5, 2025 – 5:00PM
Australia will have to contend with an additional 1.64m crimes created by climate change over the course of the rest of the century, an alarming study has found.
Researchers Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth, and Trong-Anh Trinh came to the staggering conclusion after matching weather data with crime rates over an 18-year period.
Their paper ‘Crime, Weather, and Climate Change in Australia’ found that increasing extreme heat events in Australia will generate an additional 72,000 crimes per year.
If emissions continue to rise as predicted, those yearly increases will amount to approximately 1.64m additional crimes throughout the rest of the 21st century.
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