BBC News: by Rebecca Morelle.
Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests.
US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war.
The team says with the current projected levels of climate change, the world is likely to become a more violent place.
The study is published in Science.
Marshall Burke, from the University of California, Berkeley, said: “This is a relationship we observe across time and across all major continents around the world. The relationship we find between these climate variables and conflict outcomes are often very large.”
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Climate change could possible trigger and increase global unrest as drought, flood ,hurricanes affects global food shortages and push boundaries of nations in desperate attempt to survive. Hence fighting to survive as a result of land degradation,deforestation and shrinkage of useful land masses such water scarcity and high evaporation rates of major fresh water lakes example of lake chad in sub saharan Africa!