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Freeze Your Balls Off
If Eskimos have wars, I’ve never heard of them. Why is the standard of living in Norway better than in the United States of America? A question asked by George Carlin: How many rapes happen at the North Pole? Are the differences in the Southern U.S. and the Northern U.S. exclusively a result of history, or is there an underlying variable contributing partly to the difference?
Personal anecdote/testimony: I, a resident of Louisiana, get frustrated and short-tempered during the summer. I hate being hot. I hate walking around sweating and having to deal with shit while I’m hot, especially when there are mosquitos present. In the winter I just want to stay inside and comfortably read and play video games.
Seriously, is there something to this? Does this have anything to do with aggression? Do Eskimos have wars? And if Africa got cold, would anyone act differently? I’m not trying to claim anything here. I just wonder if there’s something to it.
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2009 The Institute of Illogical Operation. 
I’ve ruminated on that subject before. The most war torn region of the world is where? Yeah the middle east, at least currently. It even permeates into our language. You can be said to get “steaming mad” or “hot tempered.” Your “blood can boil” with a “burning rage.” Alternately you could just “chill out” and “be cool.”
Look at our holidays. The biggest holiday during the summer is Independence Day, July 4th, a holiday based on a war with fireworks providing gunshot and cannon simulations. Winter has Christmas, which is about getting together and singing and giving gifts and feeling warm and happy with mankind. (all consumerist culture criticisms aside, of course)
This same question is actually posed in the film “Do The Right Thing” where the intense summer heat brings racial tensions of Bed-stuy to a boiling point.
Spike Lee got the idea for this film reading about how the murder rate spiked during heat-waves.