Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
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The authors found no clear and reliable evidence that anthropogenic climate change was a factor in Syria's pre-civil war drought; that this drought did not cause anywhere near the scale of migration that is often alleged; and that there exists no solid evidence that drought migration pressures in Syria contributed to civil war onset.About:
This article is published in Political Geography.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 227 citations till now.read more
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Future of the human climate niche.
Chi Xu,Timothy A. Kohler,Timothy M. Lenton,Jens-Christian Svenning,Marten Scheffer,Marten Scheffer,Marten Scheffer +6 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that depending on scenarios of population growth and warming, over the coming 50 y, 1 to 3 billion people are projected to be left outside the climate conditions that have served humanity well over the past 6,000 y.
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Climate Change and Drought: From Past to Future
TL;DR: A review of recent advances in understanding of drought dynamics, drawing from studies of paleoclimate, the historical record, and model simulations of the past and future, can be found in this paper.
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Climate, conflict and forced migration
TL;DR: The authors used a gravity model to examine the causal link between climate, conflict and forced migration and found that climate conditions, by affecting drought severity and the likelihood of armed conflict, played a significant role as an explanatory factor for asylum seeking.
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