News & Views item - August 2013

 

 

"Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict". (August 2, 2013)

Solomon M. Hsiang, Marshall Burke and Edward Miguel yesterday published on line (Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1235367) here.

 

There take home message: "We find strong causal evidence linking climatic events to human conflict across a range of spatial and temporal scales and across all major regions of the world."