Comments on: Climate Change Kills 160 Syrian Villages http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/06/syria-villages-climate-change/ A sustainable news site on the Middle East Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:51:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Optical “Soil Dipstick” Forecasts the Health of Farms, Forests and the Planet | Green Prophet http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/06/syria-villages-climate-change/#comment-3140 Optical “Soil Dipstick” Forecasts the Health of Farms, Forests and the Planet | Green Prophet Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:35:34 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=9722#comment-3140 [...] to climate change experts, our planet has a fever — melting glaciers are just one stark sign of the radical changes [...] [...] to climate change experts, our planet has a fever — melting glaciers are just one stark sign of the radical changes [...]

]]> By: Oli Brown http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/06/syria-villages-climate-change/#comment-3139 Oli Brown Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:01:31 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=9722#comment-3139 By way of introduction I'm one of the authors of the report mentioned in this blog. Thanks for your interest in our work and the excellent article you wrote on the issue. I just wanted to take this opportunity to clarify one point: We make no claim in the report that the villages in Syria were evacuated as a direct result of anthropogenic climate change (the AFP article misquotes us). The villages were certainly abandoned as a result of a cyclical drought - but there's no evidence to suggest that this is (or, for that matter, isn't) the result of human-induced climate change. That said climate change is certainly a serious issue which presents, we think, some real security concerns in the region which, as you note, need urgent attention and action. By way of introduction I’m one of the authors of the report mentioned in this blog.

Thanks for your interest in our work and the excellent article you wrote on the issue. I just wanted to take this opportunity to clarify one point:

We make no claim in the report that the villages in Syria were evacuated as a direct result of anthropogenic climate change (the AFP article misquotes us). The villages were certainly abandoned as a result of a cyclical drought – but there’s no evidence to suggest that this is (or, for that matter, isn’t) the result of human-induced climate change.

That said climate change is certainly a serious issue which presents, we think, some real security concerns in the region which, as you note, need urgent attention and action.

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