Can’t Stand the Heat? Rise up!
Reuters has a short but interesting piece on how not just climate change but the cyclical El Niño pattern sparks revolution in tropical nations.
From the article:
Peru in 1982 and Sudan in 1963, 1976 and 1983 showed remarkable links between El Nino patterns and civil unrest, the researchers found. Other countries with a strong link between violence and El Nino include El Salvador, the Philippines and Uganda in 1972; Angola, Haiti and Myanmar in 1991, and Congo, Eritrea, Indonesia and Rwanda in 1997. The researchers focused on internal civil conflicts because since 1950, these account for 80 to 90 percent of all conflicts. Some 40 percent of the conflicts that occurred would probably have happened anyway, but the stresses of El Nino made conflict more likely, and sometimes made it happen earlier. Poorer countries were at the greatest risk, the scientists said.
