On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the Center for American Progress’ Christie Hefner said that Chicago’s sky-high murder rate could be blamed — at least in part — on climate change.
Liberal Christie Hefner ties Chicago murder rate to climate change | The Daily Caller
Brilliant theory, except that Illinois summers are getting cooler, and July 2009 was the coldest July on record in Illinois.
Hefner should stick to T&A and leave the DOA to the police 😉
How dare you show actual temperature data. You are cherry picking! (sarc)
Odd that they cannot find a connection between cities and violence.
The “Urban Hooded Idiot” effect. 😉
Of all of the incredibly stupid claims made about so-called AGW, and there’s a LOT to choose from. This claim just might take the sap-sucking prize. Funny we won’t hear any warmists come out and repudiate this trash because it’s all about the political agenda.
This numb-skull claim by Ms. Hefner could be shot down in about a million ways, but let’s try this one. By Ms. Hefner’s logic San Diego, for example, should have a higher per-capita murder rate than Chicago, which is fricking freezing during the winter BTW, corollary to temperature. It doesn’t.
If her logic was correct, the per capita murder rate would increase steadily as one moved south, and Michael Mann would tout a new temperature proxy, “The Historical Isothermic Violence Proxy”.