Rising Global Temperatures = More Violence

According to a new study in the journal Science, a warming planet is related to an increase of civil violence. Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, and psychology the study's author's shows that when the temperature goes up, so do the tempers. They found that for every degree of temperature rise there is a 4% rise in interpersonal violence and that poorer populations are more vulnerable to this effect.

Why would this be? The answer seems to be that shifts in climate influence agricultural and economic productivity and especially food prices. The study also notes that there are "mental and physical responses to rising temperatures, which need further scientific investigation" and that "climatic events may alter individuals' ability to reason and correctly interpret events, possibly leading to conflicts triggered by misunderstandings."

Will this have any effect on the climate change denying, hotheaded, Tea Party Republicans? It might might be inferred that it already has.