writeaboutwarming

August 2, 2013 – Much is being made of a literature review published on Tuesday, in which scientists conclude that violent behavior will increase as the temperature does.    (Sixty articles are included in the review.)   Group behavior will show a 56 percent increase in violence, individual behavior will show a 16 percent increase.   There is little of a surprising nature about the study, in my opinion.   My beef centers more on the way the study is being reported. Time and again we’re being told that “people,” “human beings,” “humanity,” or “humankind” will behave this way.   Speaking on behalf of the 50% of humankind which rarely resorts to violence, I’d like to voice my serious exception to this manner of reporting!   What a pile of crap.   More and more women are being victimized by men who barely qualify to be called human, yet we are lumped in with these same perpetrators.   If men are expected to take responsibility for their in...