Climate change will lead to more violence plus Sunday night crime stories

Continuing on with the hot topic of climate change, here is the third of several stories I included in Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (One year of Curiosity on Mars) on Daily Kos.*

RedOrbit: Global Rise In Violence May Be Another Effect Of Climate Change
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
August 2, 2013

From higher crime rates to a greater chance of social upheaval, a new study from researchers at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley predicts more violence across the globe will be one of the effects of climate change.

Based on an analysis of 12,000 years of historical and climate data culled from 60 different studies in fields ranging from archaeology to political science, the research team concluded an uptick in violence will accompany rising temperatures and lower precipitation levels, according to their report in the journal Science.

“We often think of modern society as largely independent of the environment, due to technological advances, but our findings challenge that notion,” said study co-author Edward Miguel, a professor of environmental and resource economics at UC Berkeley.

Follow over the link for the complete press release from the University of California, Berkeley, along with two Sundays of news about violence, both criminal and political, that made the top stories list on Reuters.