Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/07/2010 1:39:25 AM PDT by Islander7
It challenges previous assumptions that environmental disasters, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, had played a part in triggering unrest.
Instead, it says, traditional factors - such as poverty and social tensions - were often the main factors behind the outbreak of conflicts.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
US researchers found that across the continent, conflict was about 50% more likely in unusually warm years.
of course they will ignore the elephant in the room. Centralise planning/socialism is the main cause of wars in Africa. Bad government planning leading to wide spread poverty, hunger and corruption
Also, it has been argued that, of the Trillions wasted on carbon reduction, just a fraction directed to improving poverty conditions would have prevented many of these conflicts. If so, then the hoax that is AGW is a larger contributor than any actual climate change.
fyi
Many wars start because some lazy bastid decides to take from his neighbor what he is too lazy to work for himself.
I, for one, never thought so. I always assumed it was the ill-tempered residents.
GW? LOL!!!
What was the dynamic for the last 40,000 years before the industrial age?
Africans primarily to blame for African civil wars.
Climate? Nope, don't recall one war that began because it was too hot.
I will agree that there is a correlation there, but what is a correlation? A correlation is a matter of seeing how simultaneous numbers play out concurrently. It is almost never a conclusion, but hopefully, it can lead to the genuine research that brings the conclusion as a theory through. There are a number of issues, especially incredibly bad governance and tyrannical regimes that have come up in Africa as a replacement to the European colonial domination afterwards. Again, this is not to say that climate does play a part, but its only one of many variables involved, whether political or natural, now and in the future.
I will agree that there is a correlation there, but what is a correlation? A correlation is a matter of seeing how simultaneous numbers play out concurrently. It is almost never a conclusion, but hopefully, it can lead to the genuine research that brings the conclusion as a theory through. There are a number of issues, especially incredibly bad governance and tyrannical regimes that have come up in Africa as a replacement to the European colonial domination afterwards. Again, this is not to say that climate does play a part, but its only one of many variables involved, whether political or natural, now and in the future.
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