Researcher Finds a 'Climate Effect' in Violent Conflicts
10-24-12
Originally printed in ClimateWire, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds to a growing body of research that attempts to understand how changes in Earth's climate affect humans' willingness to fight.
Many scientists, politicians and military leaders have warned that climate change could exacerbate existing tensions in the world's poorest and most vulnerable countries, where a shift to more extreme weather patterns could lead to agricultural collapse and resource wars.
But attempts to unravel the links between climate and conflict have produced a wide range of results, some conflicting, said the new study's lead author, John O'Loughlin, a political geographer at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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