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FT.com / US & Canada - Climate seen as security issue
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“I saw a clear connection between our counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism work and our dependence on oil and petroleum products from places in the world that often exploit that dependence,”
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the Taliban’s leading source of funding, as I understand it, is private donations from people in Gulf oil states who have made that money selling oil to us. We saw that that money recycled right back to insurgent activity,”
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Tolerance.ca® - Global Warming will increase War in Africa
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quantitative evidence linking climate change and the risk of civil conflict
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climate change could increase the risk of African civil war by over 50% in 2030 relative to 1990
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The war against warming : article : Nature Reports Climate Change
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the UK government then unveiled a glossy, colour-coded map detailing how global warming could lead to water and food shortages, extended drought, mass migration and violent conflicts, if action to curtail greenhouse gases wasn't taken at the upcoming Copenhagen summit
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"incremental, and at times, abrupt, climate change is resulting in an unprecedented scale of human misery ... with consequential security implications that need to be addressed urgently"
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RUSI Climate Change and Security
Royal United Services Institute on climate change news and research
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Climate change and warfare: Cool heads or heated conflicts? | The Economist
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a newly published study analysing the historical connection between war and climate throws into question the assumption that rising temperatures and violence go hand in hand.
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in the more remote past the effects of cold weather on harvests led to supply shortages, and that these increased the likelihood of people fighting over food and the land needed to produce it
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Global warming threatens Mideast - UPI.com
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Little by little, Egypt's Mediterranean coastline is being swallowed up by the sea because of global warming, in some places as much as 100 yards a year.
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"We will pay for this one way or another," General Anthony Zinni, who commanded U.S. forces in the Middle East until he retired in 2006, warned recently."We will pay to reduce greenhouse gases today and we'll have to take an economic hit of some kind. Or we'll pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll."
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