Changing climate contributed to Syrian conflict, will increasingly hurt Mideast economies-studies
Photo: Damascus, Syria, September, 2013 / Volodymyr Borodin / Shutterstock.com
A growing body of evidence suggests that climate change helped spark the ongoing conflict in Syria–and that if left unchecked, it will continue to wreak havoc on the societies and economies of the Middle East.
SYRIA CONFLICT
“The Syria case is a good example of a type of scenario that could become more common as temperatures warm: Hot temperatures and low rainfall for many years drastically reduced agricultural output in the Syrian countryside,” explains Marshall Burke, a fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Food Security and the Environment.
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