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In the first episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, fictional entomologist Gil Grissom arrived at a crime scene and used tweezers to pull a maggot out of a dead body. Within moments, he announced that the age of the maggot indicated that the body had been dead for seven days. The same approach applies in real life — entomologists use the larval stage of insects to detect time since death — though the science is more complicated and takes longer. Real-world entomologists like Jens Amendt reference data from nearby weather stations to model the temperature of dead bodies, which will affect how quickly the insects grow. But climate change is expected to make that analysis, which was already more nuanced than TV suggests, even trickier. Weather has never been constant, but under climate change it is becoming more variable and extreme. "We have two days of heat, of nice weather, and then thunder and storms and heavy rain," said Jens Amendt, a professor at the Institute of Forensic Medic

How climate change could affect death investigations | CBC News How climate change could affect death investigations | CBC News Loaded Climate How climate change could affect death investigations Climate change has led to weather becoming less predictable, and insects migrating beyond their usual haunts. Forensic scientists will need to adapt to these changes to make accurate statements about when and where a person died. Forensic investigations rely on intel about the natural world that climate change is disrupting Kiera Osborne · CBC News · Posted: Aug 22, 2024 5:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: Au

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