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Jun 17Rising global temperatures might have one particularly unexpected side effect: dog bites.
"Humans commit more violent crimes when temperature and air pollution is higher," the scientists write in the paper, which was. "Here, we investigate if also the day-to-day rates of dogs biting humans is influenced by environmental factors." They then cross-referenced instances of dog bites with available weather data. Sure enough, recorded dog bites went up by 11 percent on days with particularly high UV exposure, four percent on all-around hotter days, and three percent on days when ozone, a common pollutant, was more prevalent.There are some notable limitations to the study.
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