It's a hot day; sweat soaks your forehead, and you just want
to get back to your air-conditioned home, so of course you're going to be angry
if the car in front of you doesn't move when the traffic light turns green.
Honk! Honk!
When the temperature rises, so does aggression -- and that
can lead to large-scale consequences, considering that climate change is
turning up the heat over the entire planet.
A new study in the journal Science shows that shifts in
climate historically have been associated with violent conflicts, among both
individuals and groups, and that current warming patterns could significantly
increase the abundance of human conflict by midcentury.