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How Global Warming Helped Cause the Syrian War
2015-03-03 06:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wired: The bloody conflict in Syria--which enters its fifth year this month--has killed almost 200,000 people, created 3.2 million refugees, and given rise to the murderous extremist group known as the Islamic State. The roots of the civil war extend deep into Syrias political and socioeconomic structures. But another cause turns out to be global warming. When violence erupted in Syria during the Arab Spring in 2011, the country had been mired in a three-year drought--its worst in recorded history....
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New Study Says Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian Civil War
2015-03-03 01:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: By now, it's pretty clear that we're starting to see visible manifestations of climate change beyond far-off melting ice sheets. One of the most terrifying implications is the increasingly real threat of wars sparked in part by global warming. New evidence says that Syria may be one of the first such conflicts. We know the basic story in Syria by now: From 2006-2010, an unprecedented drought forced the country from a groundwater-intensive breadbasket of the region to a net food importer. Farmers...
Reality Check: Kentucky beer battle ad war on tap
2015-03-03 00:27:58| Beverages - Topix.net
As the Kentucky Senate prepares to consider legislation forcing Anheuser-Busch from the state, the two sides are pouring money into a TV advertising war. New ads will debut by Tuesday in television markets across the state.
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Climate Change Caused the War in Syria?
2015-03-03 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Wars are usually caused by struggles for land or power, but one new study is blaming climate change, at least in part, for the start of the Syrian war. A nationwide drought, the worst Syria has ever seen, ravaged the region from 2006-2010, destroying the agricultural industry and driving farmers to poverty-stricken cities. Coincidentally, in spring 2011, unrest escalated into a full-blown Syrian war that has since killed at least 200,000 people and displaced millions. "We're not saying the...
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Global warming helped trigger Syria's civil war
2015-03-02 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Manmade global warming helped spark the brutal civil war in Syria by doubling to tripling the odds that a crippling drought in the Fertile Crescent would occur shortly before the fighting broke out, according to a groundbreaking new study published on March 2. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to attribute the drought in Syria in large part to global warming. In doing so, it provides powerful evidence backing up the Pentagon and...
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