How climate change makes the world more violent

Washington post ^ | May 21 | By Alex Bollfrass and Andrew Shaver

[bob_denard]

Natural scientists agree that the climate is changing and that humans bear some of the blame. Social scientists are now attempting to assess the economic and political price societies are likely to pay for turning up our planet’s thermostat. The security policy community is especially eager for an answer.

In the academy, the debate over climate change and its security implications gained momentum after researchers from Stanford, the University of California Berkeley, New York University, and Harvard observed that civil wars were more prevalent during years that experience hotter temperatures. The chief explanation for this relationship is that higher temperatures affect crop yields. Diminished agricultural output, in turn, as economist Ted Miguel and co-authors explain in a separate study, affects young men who are “more likely to take up arms when income opportunities are worse for them in agriculture [. . . ] relative to their expected income as [fighters].”

[Zathras]

What the heck is a “Natural Scientist”?
Does that imply that there is a “Unnatural Scientist”?

[Fledermaus]

Idiots doubling down on stupidity.

[glennaro]

These “science-deniers” don’t give up easily. “The End is Near” cult, once dismissed by the general public as crackpots, is now embraced by many who are scared shiite-less about anything and everything.