Less Food, More War: CO2 Driving Certain Global Warming, Rising Insecurity

Juan Cole 03/31/2014

Climate change boosts conflict risk, floods, hunger: UN (via AFP)

Soaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, floods and mass migration this century, the UN’s expert panel said Monday in a landmark report on the impact of climate change. Left unchecked, greenhouse gas emissions may cost trillions…

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About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. Follow him at @jricole.