Sentence examples for climate conflict from inspiring English sources

The weather versus climate conflict illustrates what behavioral economists have said for years: "We base our decisions on emotion far more than reason".

You can regard the Arab Spring, in part, as a climate conflict: the increase in wheat prices was one of the triggers for that series of revolts that changed the face of northernmost Africa and the Middle East.

For years, there's been a building chorus of warnings on the looming prospect of "climate conflict" and "global warring" that might be set off as greenhouse-driven warming disrupts longstanding weather patterns in already-turbulent parts of the world (think sub-Saharan Africa) or rising seas dislocate coastal populations (think Bangladesh).

Michael's academic career includes a Ph.D. from George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and is focused on climate conflict.

In the next few years many national energy and climate conflicts are likely to be tested and addressed by states.

Researchers searching for the climate-conflict nexus wouldn't disagree with Newell, necessarily, so much as expand upon this line of reasoning.

A 2014 analysis of climate-conflict research found that drought and rising temperatures "systematically increase the risk of conflict, often substantially".

This time round, there at least appears to be some scientific support for the climate-conflict thesis: a study by Earth scientists at Columbia University, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found: "Climate change is implicated in the current Syrian conflict".

Such official statements "reinforce the impression that the climate-conflict link is considered uncontroversial in policy circles," Buhaug wrote.

He also accuses Hsiang's team of "severe bias in sample selection" and says that his analysis of the same data did not support the climate-conflict link.

The most recent illustrations of the double challenge of climate and conflict are currently found in Syria and Iraq — conflicts that are characterized by complex interactions among multiple actors, including the Islamic State, various rebel insurgencies, regular armies and an international coalition that is struggling to keep a united front.