Have you enjoyed the unseasonally mild weather? Were you mugged during it? If so, welcome to the future as seen by Professor Keith Pease. Climate change, already the major long-term threat facing the planet according to Tony Blair and a death sentence to polar bears and baby seals, will also send crime rates soaring, the criminologist believes.
Prof Pease, visiting professor of crime science at University College London, is reported by the Scotsman as saying that warmer weather will result in more people on the streets, larger crowds, and alcohol consumption - all of which are all linked to increases in crime.
He says: "The question really is not whether global warming will lead to an increase in street crime, but by how much?"
The story has provoked a wave - a mini heatwave if you like - of protests from readers about the sheer number of tangentially connected future world ills being blamed on global warming.
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