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- appleofdischord, on 07/17/2009, -1/+26Because it's too ***** hot to work, that's why!
- effoffpunk, on 07/17/2009, -3/+16Hot climates may create sluggish people.
- pstroll, on 07/17/2009, -0/+12It's not the heat, it's the humidity. It makes people wacky. Example: Florida
- kingmanic, on 07/17/2009, -1/+12What do you mean? Canada is competitive in most industries. We're in the G8 and have a GDP per capita close to the US. A fair number of influential businessmen in north America are Canadian. We also work almost as many hours as the US and have almost as much disposable income.
- joculator, on 07/17/2009, -0/+9Because the women are hotter and wear less clothing.
- Aidenf77, on 07/17/2009, -0/+9So as soon as they can reach a level of growth that affords them widespread air-conditioning, we should expect a more rapid economic growth rate. Or would that be offset by cooling costs?
- kingmanic, on 07/17/2009, -0/+8Brain/body temp? Your brain and body work optimally at a certain temp range. Manipulating a cold temp into that range is technologically easier than manipulating a hot temp into that range. So colder climes just have people functioning more optimally?
Fire and warm cloths are easier to make than air conditioners. - badqat, on 07/17/2009, -4/+12In other words, you were too lazy to RTFA...assumed (incorrectly, by the way) it was about global warming, and thus, nonsense.
Right? - asgardshill, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7Seems obvious to me that its easier to dress for and work in cold weather than it is in hot weather. (You can layer clothing as much as necessary to combat the cold, but you can only remove so much to combat the hot). The more people working and going to the shops (and not hiding under their air conditioners at home), the better the economy.
The exceptions that maybe prove the rule?
FTA:
"Whatever the cause, there are some countries that buck the trend. Singapore is just about on the equator and has a strong economy. Indonesia is growing fast."
Texas in 2009 is another. Although they're in the grip of a lengthy 100-year drought/heat wave, their economy has fared better than many cooler Northern states during this recession. - kingmanic, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7No country will ever archive 0% unemployment without a lot of redefinition of what employment is.
- Tarmogoyf, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5If you lived in a cold climate, you would need to use fire to survive. Major tech.
- zimmermans, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5There are exceptions, like Hong Kong and Taiwan (and oil prinicpalities like Qatar and Brunei), whose GDP per capita is higher than some colder places such as New Zealand, Italy, Greece, Russia,etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ ... - greenroom628, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4but happier ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Planet_Index - tiraid, on 07/17/2009, -4/+8Good thing the global temperature has been going down for 10 years, eh?
- riverrunner, on 07/18/2009, -0/+4If you have ever been to Fiji this would not be suprising. Bula!
- DerangedPenguin, on 07/18/2009, -0/+4Ever been to California, I thought not.
- yoyar, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5Most Canadians live in the temperate zones near the US border. Vastly different than the arctic.
- novenator, on 07/17/2009, -3/+7It's a typical response from him
- megaton, on 07/18/2009, -0/+4That's the scientific method at work, kids!
- zimmermans, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4However, if one consults the below map, it is apparent that "western" (historic ties to european traditions) economies are generally the strongest, which may stem from a variety of sources: historical, environmental, cultural, religious, etc..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_PPP_Per_Capi ... - Countess666, on 07/18/2009, -0/+3when compared to the last 10 years, yes, to bad it started on a mayor high, and still isn't as cold as it 'should' be.
and the sun reached it solar minimum, solar output will increase again sometime next year, - rath01, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Simple. More beach days.
- fury420, on 07/18/2009, -0/+3ummm... yeah, that's about as useful of a statement as saying that the vast majority of the US is sparsely populated arid grasslands while ignoring all the population centres along the coastlines and the north.
I guess he's showing off his quality American education. - sndream, on 07/18/2009, -1/+4"The researchers found that temperature shifts did not appear to affect the wealthier countries"
As a Canadian, I can assure the researcher that if the winter shift a few degree colder, it will affect our GDP a lot. A few degree hotter in cold climate probably mean nice weather, but it probably mean heat wave in hot climate, why are people surprise?
You can find patterns even in clouds, it's just coincident. For example, if you arrange continents in alphabetical order, you will find those in the middle are better than those in the front and end. But I doubt changing Africa name to something else will make any difference.
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Australia
Europe
North America
South America - mikesly, on 07/17/2009, -3/+6Not as though the arctic economy is thriving either... Doubt it has to be with economics and more about people's willingness
- SpazAttack5000, on 07/18/2009, -1/+4Happy lazy people.... I think that is called the Caribbean :)
- LoneStarLizard, on 07/18/2009, -2/+5Here in Texas it has been above 100 degrees almost every day for weeks now, as it is most summers, but our economy is currently the healthiest out of all 50 states. This article is complete crap. buried.
- kingmanic, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4Presbyterian: lol. I can't tell if your a sarcastic or not. I guess godwins law applies to broader cases.
- JacD, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Where do you think all those Nikes are made?
- Myztry, on 07/18/2009, -0/+3I think it's drier more so than hotter places. The exception to this being resources such as mining where the extremely high productivity allows them to overcome that barrier by building infrastructure to compensate.
- rocknog, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3I would be tempted to suggest that maybe it's an adaptation thing, that, say, if you live in a lush, tropical country you're not going to have to work as hard to get your basic needs met, but I don't know about hot desert countries, because of those factor in too, that complicates things. Another idea is that a lot of countries in warmer climates have traditionally been exploited by outsiders for their resources, and that history of exploitation puts them at a disadvantage in terms of building up a strong economy.
- Math, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2No, it's big hats. Big hats restrict blood flow to the brain and are often used in warm climates.
- yoyar, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Yah and that worked out awesome!
- Richandler, on 07/18/2009, -1/+3Um water.... Most cities are developed on the coast. After that movement inward to more desert like areas can take place. Not something that really needs studying.
- rxbudian, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2who wants to move if it makes you sweat
- asami21, on 07/19/2009, -0/+2So blame the climate instead of the politicians who are taxing this economy to death.
- Barackalypse, on 07/18/2009, -1/+3I can tell you why cold countries don't, because if you sat around on your butt all the time not working up north, you'd freeze to death the first winter.
- MisterChase, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2Gee, no wonder why Australia, Israel, and Hong Kong are in languishing in the throes of utter despair and poverty.
- biotch, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3In yet other words, his ability to determine whether global warming is "non-sense" without jumping to conclusions is questionable.
- SyuRi, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2What are going to do people on cloudy and rainy coutries? Stay at home? Might as well go to work, while on sunny you'd better go out in the sun, go to the beach and maybe have some fun. Less economic growth, more happiness. Happiness is underrated nowadays.
- Bodhinature, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2Its not nonsense because it has to do with Global Warming. Its nonsense because it has nothing to do with facts. Was Europe hot and humid like Cambodia during the Middle Ages when it was filled with poor starving peasants. Around the same time Southeast Asian and Indian Empires and China were world powers trading with equally powerful Muslim Empires. And you can bet they were hot. The West Indies and South America were hot while they supplied all of the economic wealth of their colonial masters.
I guess attending MIT doesn't make you so smart. - inactive, on 07/18/2009, -1/+2Is this more propaganda against global warming?
- jezsik, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1Bingo. When air-conditioning was introduced in Singapore years ago, productivity skyrocketed. Cool 'em down and people can work more.
- Wrangler76, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1Uh, look at Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Israel, South Korea- all of which are among the top 30 gdp per capita (ppp) in the world. As mentioned in the article, Singapore, which is pretty much on the equator, is ranked 4th in the world! Even historically, for hundreds of years China was the richest in the world, as was India. Look where they are now.
- LoneStarLizard, on 07/18/2009, -1/+2Title: Hot Climates May Create Sluggish Economies.
Proved: False
Response: Buried
Try to pay attention please. - inactive, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1@Presbyterian
http://daac.ornl.gov/BOREAS/bhs/Maps/Canada_Forest ...
I refuse to believe Americans are as ignorant of their continent as you are. - newquayweb, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1I don't tend to be mean but i think this article may tend to be sound racist. It doesn't necessarily means that when a country is hot, there is no hope of growing or catching up with the economy. I think it was just a coincidence. A Coincidence that Africa which is considered as one of the slowest country to grow is a hot country. let's put it this way, too much may mean bad. What about places in which the climate is extremely cold? Let's think about that.
- hakkola, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1Nordic countries and several other European countries, Japan and southern China all have high humidity and pretty good economies.
- paker, on 07/18/2009, -1/+2It's been 95F at work all week and everyone seems pretty sluggish.
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