A variety of physical, biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors influence the likelihood of suicide in individuals and populations. Strong evidence demonstrates that suicide rates vary from region to region and that this variation is reliably stable over time, holding both across specific countries and within specific countries. The extent to which climate may impact suicide propensity in particular individuals and populations, increasing knowledge such a trend would have significant implications for public health and climate-related policies. In addition to improving the health behaviors of service users and the screening, prevention or treatment practices of health professionals, knowledge of how climate may relate to suicide rates could significantly shape interventions as changes climate change becomes more widespread, persistent, irreversible and significant. The dominant scientific way of thinking about the effect of climate on suicide rates primarily includes the idea that climatic factors likely mediate psychological and social variables that in turn influence suicidality. While few thinkers argue that climate is a major or primary proximal cause of suicides, the degree and nature of its influence remains undetermined. However, even a mild or moderate, indirect influence of climate on suicide could have significant implications for suicide prevention efforts. While the present analysis may only be a correlation, such research remains necessary for any further analysis of causal relationships, especially given the basic impossibility of actually controlling or manipulating a real climate. Climate will here be operationally defined as constituting observations relating to.... .. middle of paper ......there are no social sciences: In defense of Peter Winch. Analysis, 69(4), 795-797.Perryman, C. (2008). The information practices of physical science librarians differ from those of the scientific community: further research is needed to characterize specific information seeking and use, 3(3), 231-247. National Center for Health Statistics. (1974). Vital Statistics of the United States, 1970. Rockville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. National climate center. (1980). Climate data for the United States through 1979. Washington, DC: US ​​Government Printing Office. Schwartz, R. & Joan, M. (2000). Documents of simple truth and precision: photography, archives and the illusion of control. Archivaria, 50, 1-40.Thompson, B. (2007). The science of statistics. The nature of statistical evidence: Lecture notes in statistics, 189(3), 122-125.