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August 24, 2011

Climate Change to Cause More Conflict?

Catherine Brahic, NewScientist


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THE Peruvian highlands were hit hard by El Niño in 1982, and crops were destroyed. The same year, guerrilla attacks by the Shining Path movement erupted into a civil war that would last 20 years. Random coincidence? Possibly not.

The first study to link global climate patterns to the onset of civil conflict places El Niño on a par with factors like poverty and social exclusion.

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