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Since it’s summer, meaning it’s hot outside, the Cult of Climastrology often switches to the old phrase to push their insane cultology

Global warming is making more people kill themselves: study

Global warming is leading more people to commit suicide, a new study says.

Stanford University scientists say they have identified a connection between climate change and mental health, suggesting that abnormally hot temps prompt more suicides.

If trends persist, there could be an additional 21,000 deaths in the US and Mexico alone over the next three decades, according to their study, which was published in Nature Climate Change on Monday.

“When talking about climate change, it’s often easy to think in abstractions,” wrote lead researcher Marshall Burke. “But the thousands of additional suicides that are likely to occur as a result of unmitigated climate change are not just a number, they represent tragic losses for families across the country.”

How did they arrive at this conclusion?

The study compared suicide rates in abnormally hot months with those in months with average temperatures. Burke and his colleagues looked at five decades of suicides and the temperature when each death took place.

First, there’s no such thing as an abnormally hot month. Second, they apparently do not understand how averages are calculated. If one month has an average of 72F, another 94, and another is 87, we get an average of 84.333, right? So, the Warmists then say the average should be 84, and anything higher means utter complete (maybe possibly we think, give us more money and we’ll study it more) doom.

We can fix this with a tax, though.