Climate Change May Spell More Traffic Fatalities
View on SFGate website"While warm weather had little to no effect on those types of accidents, the researchers did find that fatalities rose as the weather improved — by 9 percent on days with temperatures above 80 degrees Fahrenheit compared to days with temperatures between 50 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
'It’s a striking result that we didn’t expect,' said co-author Benjamin Leard, an environmental economist at Resources for the Future (RFF), an environmental economics think tank in Washington, D.C."
