h/t Dr. Willie Soon; According to a study, hate speech increases on social media when temperatures rise above 30°C (86F).
Climate Change Is Making People Angrier Online
Hate speech increases on social media when temperatures rise above 30°C (86F), new research says.
By Laura Millan Lombrana
13 September 2022 at 20:47 GMT+10Climate change is making us angrier online. A lot angrier.
Hateful comments spike on social media when temperatures rise above 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research have found.
“It’s an indicator of how well people can adapt to high temperatures,” said Annika Stechemesser, lead author of the study published in The Lancet Planetary Health earlier this month. “If temperatures go too hot or too cold, we found that there’s an increase in online hate speech, no matter the socioeconomic differences, religion or political beliefs.”
Global warming of about 1.1°C on average since pre-industrial times has unleashed all sorts of extreme weather events across the world. This summer, drought and a string of heat waves hit Europe, China and the US. For humans, heat is associated with psychiatric hospitalizations, increased rates of suicide and more domestic violence, according to research.
And aggressive behavior online has been linked to violence offline too. Incensed posts have led to more violence toward minorities, including mass shootings, lynchings and ethnic cleansing, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think tank.
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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-13/climate-change-is-making-people-angrier-online
The findings of the study;
Temperature impacts on hate speech online: evidence from 4 billion geolocated tweets from the USA
Annika Stechemesser, MSc , Prof Anders Levermann, PhD , Leonie Wenz, PhD
Open Access Published:September, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00173-5
The prevalence of hate tweets was lowest at moderate temperatures (12 to 21°C) and marked increases in the number of hate tweets were observed at hotter and colder temperatures, reaching up to 12·5% (95% CI 8·0–16·5) for cold temperature extremes (–6 to –3°C) and up to 22·0% (95% CI 20·5–23·5) for hot temperature extremes (42 to 45°C). Outside of the moderate temperature range, the hate tweets also increased as a proportion of total tweeting activity. The quasi-quadratic shape of the temperature–hate tweet curve was robust across varying climate zones, income quartiles, religious and political beliefs, and both city-level and state-level aggregations. However, temperature ranges with the lowest prevalence of hate tweets were centred around the local temperature mean and the magnitude of the increases in hate tweets for hot and cold temperatures varied across the climate zones.
Read more: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00173-5/fulltext
Interestingly the study finding doesn’t seem to say quite what the Conversation said. The study finding appears to be that hate tweets are lowest when temperatures are closest to the mean temperature for the region, which suggests people feel least distressed when temperatures feel normal for their locale. The variation in intensity of this effect in different climate zones is also intriguing.
Even if the study methodology and conclusions are correct, and that is a big if, this does not appear to imply global warming would cause everyone to become angrier. Global warming is gradual on a human timescale. Most people who move to warm places like Florida don’t stay permanently angry, they adapt – just as people would adapt to any gradual changes in the local climate. And if they feel too warm, they can just switch on the air conditioner, providing energy remains affordable.
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As an expert on this subject who is also largely responsible for deciding the discourse future of the internet from 1989 onwards… I call absolute bullshit.
The “standard” of determining whether someone is angry has slipped way way down.
Internet literacy has led people to understand just how grammatically incompetent others are.
The increase in availability since “internet” and “world wide wut” became available of mobile and quick access has greatly gone up.
Masturbation-bias, the tendency for people to claim things support their egotistical assumption has become something that isn’t even taught against in schools.
Almost any fuckwit on Earth can now select spelling corrections to the words in their own language on a cellular device, but it doesn’t help out when someone is trying to use curse words; this is why the urban dictionary has exploded in promiscutuity to the point where almost every combination of two words can mean “fuck a whore/mother”. I have seen many many many many new insult words come from simple misspelling. 99% of the Earth doesn’t even understand the difference between trolling and trawling and I tried to explain once to a poor idiot about rules 3 and 4 of the disney animation studios on what would get you fired is that rule 3 is “no matter how shocking or depraved, it has already been drawn and you will not do it on the clock” and 4 is “rule 3 with Mickey Mouse in it”, thus Rules 3,4. Through incompetence they left out the comma and thus “rule 34” was born through idiocy. I am literally responsible for causing that shit.
There are about 2.5 billion more people with access to the internet because its the only entertainment they can afford or are allowed to use while their incompetent governments abuse and enslave them.
There is no difference in the amount of anger in the world. People are just unloading where they can’t be punched in the face by a random stranger.
Someone would also have to scientifically prove “climate change” exists at least one time as well.
Non sequitur redefined.
If I remember correctly murders in Chicago go up when it’s hot.
Does the heat make murders more common or just easier to find the victims?
Is this Off Topic or wildly On Topic?
The Topic being: This Modern World – which social media is but one (tiny??) part
You judge:
https://youtu.be/4lXypelyw7s?t=3134
Do remember, pretty much everything you might apply to your skin is absorbed and is in your bloodstream inside 20 minutes tops
That video is full of gems about Micro Nutrients, Trace Elements, Vitamins and antibiotics (e.g. = Glyphosate tho not by name)
He even mentions Kwashiorkor = Beer Belly basically.
(Fortunately something very rarely seen in this Never Better World)
edit: Note esp his words at 55:10
How much of this is down to people arguing about whether or not a hope spell/drought/thunderstorm is down to climate change or is just weather
I spend a lot of time reading comments in the UK online Daily Mail, I find many quite entertaining.
What seems to trigger spats in the comments are climate change change articles. These usually have a large number sceptical comments which have reponses from the warmist brigade about denial. Our friend from the Home Counties makes an appearance for time to time.
I would guess that these comments would fall into the hate category.
Of course this happens: when the temperature is average there’s less to whine about, whereas for each one degree above average you get an exponential increase in alarmism.
Did they collect any data from Australia? Not much T trend in UAH LTAust data for the last decade. Geoff S
http://www.geoffstuff.com/uahsep2022.jpg
In an odd way I agree with the headline.
I get angry about having tax money given to people to buy EV’s.
I get angry about knowing wind mills and solar pains will give intermittent service or cause blackouts.
I get angry that political leaders desire praise from foreigners rather help their citizens.
I get angry when people lie to my face about much better I will be with my thermostat set at 68 rather than 70,
There are many things I get angry about due to climate change.
And no I didn’t spell panes wrong.
I’m always in the best mood when it’s above 30°C.I live in a place where summer temperatures rarely go over 23°C.It’s 16°C here today.I wish the global warming/climate change frauds were right.The climate and weather has been the same here for the past 60 years.
Did they overlook the obvious confounding variable? When weather is near the mean, people indulge in more outdoor activities and thus are not as focused on social media (though the number of people walking in the park with their head down looking at their phone is alarmingly high!) Tweets during moderate conditions are probably more concerned with the activities partaken during such clement weather. Hard to be “hateful” (which I think is defined as disagreeing with a leftist) when you are busy playing disc golf.
So now we finally understand the mind of the Islamic extremist terrorist. They live in hot countries. It’s not their fault. Their climate made them do it. They should all move to Northern Europe to be much more calm and contented. …Oh, that’s right, I forgot. They ARE!
Idiocy – complete idiocy. Publishing nonsense like this should lead to real consequences and reparations for all the wasted time and missed learning.
Hypothesis:
A) When hot for the time of year people stay in the shade.
B) While staying in people spend more time online.
C) The longer people spend online he more likely they are to find something that antagonises them.
D) The more antagonised people are wen online the more the say hurtful things.
This seems logical. It arises from the stated evidence. But it states that anything that drives more internet use would have the same effect.
How many tweets are issued by the frozen dead? I guess that’s a question for the whistleblower who worked at Twitter.
” Climate Change is Making People Angrier Online”Simple solution.
Eliminate everything that makes it possible for people to go online!
VOILA!! No more “anger”!
Everyone will feel peaceful as they huddle around the fire in their cave.
So we haven’t reached peak rent seeking yet.
This is not only a terrible study, it’s embarrassing
Frederick I of Prussia (father of Frederick the Great) raised a regiment nicknamed the “Potsdam Giants” as they were all very tall men. Since then Potsdam has been associated with pygmies of the intellect.