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Climate Change Not Linked to African Wars Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Environment   
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Is there real proof of a link between climate change and civil war — particularly in crisis-ridden parts of Africa — as many have claimed? No, says Halvard Buhaug, a political scientist with the Peace Research Institute Oslo in Norway. In research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, he finds virtually no correlation between climate-change indicators such as temperature and rainfall variability and the frequency of civil wars over the past 50 years. (source: nature.com)
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