Claim: Climate disasters increase risk of armed conflict in multi-ethnic countries!: So Now What Blame The American Civil War On Global Warming To?
CO2 is the root of all evil. The media release is below. ### Climate disasters increase risk of armed conflict in multi-ethnic countries Climate disasters like heat-waves or droughts enhance the risk of armed conflicts in countries with high ethnic diversity POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (PIK) PRINT This finding, to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, can help in the design of security policies even more so since future global warming from human-made greenhouse-gas emissions will increase natural disasters and therefore likely also risks of conflicts and migration. “Devastating climate-related natural disasters have a disruptive potential that seems to play out in ethnically fractionalized societies in a particularly tragic way,” says lead author Carl Schleussner from the Berlin think-tank Climate Analytics and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Almost one quarter of conflicts in ethnically div...