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Study finds warmer climate can trigger increase in human conflict

By Take Two Staff
Published Aug 7, 2013
Black smoke billows from the chimeny of an industrial plant is the northern Lebanese coastal town of Anfeh, near Tripoli, on December 15, 2009. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri headed to Copenhagen on December 15 to attend the Climate Change World Summit as UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that negotiators face a race against time to prevent the meeting ending in catastrophic failure after developing nations staged a five-hour walkout. Pollution and climate change cost Lebanon more than half a million dollars (330 million euros) a year, the environment minister said earlier this month, adding that temperatures in the east Mediterranean country were expected to rise two degrees on average in the next four decades, and five degrees by the turn of the century. AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID (Photo credit should read JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
Black smoke billows from the chimeny of an industrial plant is the northern Lebanese coastal town of Anfeh, near Tripoli.
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Study finds warmer climate can trigger increase in human conflict

If summer temperatures have you hot and bothered, you might not be the only one. A new study published in the journal Science finds a link between global warming and human violence ... everything from domestic abuse to large scale civil war.

Here to tell us more is Edward Miguel. He's a co-author of the study and an economics professor at UC Berkeley.