According to a paper in Nature Climate Change, suicides rise as temperatures do.
The results: Stanford and Berkeley scientists analyzed decades of historical data across thousands of cities and counties. They concluded that 1 ˚C increases in monthly average temperatures increase suicide rates by 0.7 percent in the United States and 2.1 percent in Mexico.
By the numbers: As MIT Technology Review’s James Temple explains, under the UN climate panel’s “business as usual” emissions scenario, global surface temperatures could rise 2.5 ˚C by 2050 in the United States and 2.1 ˚C in Mexico, resulting in around 9,000 to 40,000 additional suicides over that period in the two nations.
Why is this? The driving mechanism isn’t certain, but the paper says one hypothesis is that blood flow patterns in the brain could change as the body works to maintain its temperature within a certain range.
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The results: Stanford and Berkeley scientists analyzed decades of historical data across thousands of cities and counties. They concluded that 1 ˚C increases in monthly average temperatures increase suicide rates by 0.7 percent in the United States and 2.1 percent in Mexico.
By the numbers: As MIT Technology Review’s James Temple explains, under the UN climate panel’s “business as usual” emissions scenario, global surface temperatures could rise 2.5 ˚C by 2050 in the United States and 2.1 ˚C in Mexico, resulting in around 9,000 to 40,000 additional suicides over that period in the two nations.
Why is this? The driving mechanism isn’t certain, but the paper says one hypothesis is that blood flow patterns in the brain could change as the body works to maintain its temperature within a certain range.
SOURCE:MIT DOWNLOAD
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