Posted on 01/15/2018 7:31:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The refugee crisis – particularly in the Mediterranean area – has received large amounts of new attention in the past few years, with people fleeing from Syria and entering the European Union emblematic of the problem. There has been some research connecting this refugee problem with changes to the climate. In particular, the years preceding the Syrian refugee crisis were characterized by a severe drought that reduced farm output and led to economic and social strife there.
Separating out the influences of climate change from general social instability may be impossible, because they are intimately linked. But we do know that climate change can cause social and economic instability. We also know that these instabilities can boil over into larger problems that lead to mass exodus. The problem isn’t knowing the connection between climate and refugees exists – rather the problem is quantifying it.
A very recent publication appearing in the journal Science investigates this complex subject.
The researchers identified 103 countries that contributed to asylum applications to the European Union. Collectively, these nations submitted 350,000 applications to the EU per year. The authors combed the weather histories from these 103 source sites and explored how the weather varied in the 2000–2014 time period.
Using a collection of climate models that are able to predict Earth’s future climate, the authors estimated that on a business-as-usual emissions pathway (where countries don’t meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions), asylum applications will increase by almost 200% by the end of the century. On the other hand, under a modest warming scenario, where humans take some meaningful action to reduce emissions, the increase falls to about 30%. Again, this shows that what humans do today to combat climate change really matters.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
LOL. Since when????
If so, then the cold must be a relief to the refugee crisis. Therefore, ship them all to Antarctica!
The “refugee crisis” is caused by people shooting people...
Not “climate change”...
So the climate is creating sh#tholes?
How does it ‘affect’ the citizens of those countries those ‘immigrant invaders’ invade due to CC?
About as true as:
Study finds that unicorn excrement exacerbates Skittles production
Ya Ya we know , Global Warming causes everything ,LOL
‘In particular, the years preceding the Syrian refugee crisis were characterized by a severe drought that reduced farm output and led to economic and social strife there.’
Because there is never a drought IN THE DESERT!
Heck, the other day my wife made brownies, and they were dry and crumbly. Why? You guessed it ...
Perhaps what really exacerbates the refugee crisis is thievery among those in charge of getting supplies to the camps....we are told a great deal of the donated food etc. goes to thieves who sell it on the black market.
Yes. Haiti and the Dominican Republic have 2 very different climates even though they are both on the same island.
The Bush, Obama, Clinton and the Deep state’s useless proxy civil wars in the mid-east exacerbate the refugee crisis.
In fact, circumstantial evidence indicates they are causing the so-called “refugee flow” on purpose.
Why is there a ‘collection’ of models? If the modeling is that good, one would suffice.
I dunno. I did a study that found that the “refugee crisis” was manufactured and “exacerbated” by progressives around the world. I like my study better.
Because that is the result that those paying for the study were looking for!
We can hardly predict weather, let alone climate.
Global Warming Drives Mussulman Hijrah!
The only thing glow Bull warming does not seem to cause is a change in mean temperature.
They manage to top themselves every day.
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