By now it s well understood that climate change leads to rising seas and rising temperatures. It is also increasingly linked to rising conflicts.
In 2014, the Pentagon issued a major report that referred to climate change as both posing immediate risks to U.S. national security and being a threat multiplier because it has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we are dealing with today from infectious disease to terrorism.
Last year, Stanford University convened a group of top climate scientists, political scientists, economists and historians to examine the degree to which climate change has exacerbated conflicts in the past century. While it concluded that climate has had a limited effect on conflicts to date less than factors like low socioeconomic development, weak governments and social inequalities their study projected that warming of 2 degrees Celsius and beyond will substantially increase the risk of armed conflict.