Climate change ‘makes violence likelier’ | Climate News Network
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By Alex Kirby
Scientists say there is a direct link between changing climate and an increase in violence, reinforcing a key finding of the latest IPCC report.
LONDON, 31 March – US scientists say there is evidence that a warming climate is closely related to political and social instability and a higher risk of conflict.
Professor Solomon Hsiang and colleagues described in the journal Nature in 2011 how they had investigated whether anything linked “planetary-scale climate changes with global patterns of civil conflict”.
