I know, I know, you’re totally surprised by this. What’s most shocking is it took them this long
Study Blames Global Warming, Not Cell Phones, For Spike In Car Accident Deaths
Global warming was responsible for thousands of road deaths in 2015, according to a new study, contradicting many public safety experts who blame increased cell phone use for the spike in traffic fatalities.
“As temperatures continue to increase from heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, road deaths will likely increase more than expected unless there are major mitigating countermeasures,†retired Yale University epidemiologist Leon Robertson said in a statement.
What the study attempts to do is blame the warmth and rain for more people being on the road
“If millions more people drive cars because the temperature is getting warmer … then that adds up to a lot of miles,†Robertson told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Mainly it’s a simple multiplication.â€
Or, hey, it could be that there are more drivers. Shocking notion, eh?
The Transportation Department, however, said human factors were to blame for most of the traffic deaths in 2015. Human factors include drunk driving, distracted driving — which includes cell phone use — and speeding.
The department also found “[vehicle miles traveled] and the average monthly temperature had strong, positive relationships with the number of fatalities, meaning that more fatalities tended to occur when more driving was done, and also when weather was warmer.â€
You also add in that gas prices are down. So, yes, people do tend to get out and about when it is warmer. Is that anything unusual? But, the nutters are specifically blaming “carbon pollution” for warming, and, there’s a wee bit of a problem with blaming anthropogenic global warming, or, heck, natural global warming
Huh.
