Global Warming Ate My Homework

The question is becoming: What won't fall into the giant catch basin of global warming?

In the last two weeks it has been linked to the war in Iraq, obesity, and now to suicide rates:

For males, increasing anomalies in monthly average temperatures associated to a higher monthly suicide mean from May to August and, to a lower extent, in November and December. In January, on the other hand, increasing anomalies in monthly average temperatures appeared to be coupled to a lower number of suicides. For females, the links between temperature and suicides are less consistent than for males, and sometimes have a reverse sign, too.

Now, if they could only link rising temperatures to lung cancer the government might finally get off smokers' backs.

(h/t: Screwy Louie)