Pentagon Fears Confirmed: Climate Change Leads to More Wars and Refugees
The conclusions published Wednesday in a scientific journal underscore
the rising levels of anxiety that global warming has among leaders.
Attendees at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
said the inability to adapt to higher temperatures is the biggest global risk. A Pentagon report published on Tuesday in Washington warned that rising seas and more frequent wild fires threaten U.S. security.
The peer-reviewed study, “Climate, conflict and forced migration,”
published in Elsevier Ltd.’s Global Environmental Change, analyzed
sprawling data sets covering drought, battle deaths, ethnicity and
political systems. Those were then combined with geographic information
about refugee flows. The researchers discovered that deteriorating
climate conditions played a “a statistically significant role” in the
recent waves of migrants fleeing Middle East conflict.
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