Comments on: Climate Change Kills 160 Syrian Villages

By: Weather and or climate from hell. « Pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:18:30 +0000

[…] – in Egypt, loaves of bread were waved in protests to highlight this struggle. The link between climate change related factors and the war in Syria, however, hasn’t been as widely discussed. Yet, drought and ineffective […]

By: As early as 2001, the World Bank warned that the Syrian Government’s efforts to achieve food security by investing in water-intensive crops such as wheat and also cotton would undermine “Syria’s security over the long-term by depleting available gro

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:57:06 +0000

By: As early as 2001, the World Bank warned that the Syrian Government’s efforts to achieve food security by investing in water-intensive crops such as wheat and also cotton would undermine “Syria’s security over the long-term by depleting available gro

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:52:47 +0000

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By: Oli Brown

Oli Brown — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:01:31 +0000

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.