In the search for more government grants without doing real scientific research - Rise in violence 'linked to climate change'

Well, it is "Climate Change," isn't it?

Look for coming links to 'climate change' in diabeties, shingles, prickly heat, the heartbreak of soriocis and the dreaded more than four hour priapism. Grants are now written in such a way to include global warming, aka climate change, to scam government funds for the study of anything meaningless and expensive. The hoax lives on. m/r

BBC News - Rise in violence 'linked to climate change'
By Rebecca MorelleScience reporter, BBC World Service 2, Aug. 2013

Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests.

US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war.

The team says with the current projected levels of climate change, the world is likely to become a more violent place. ...

But...

However, other researchers have questioned whether climate breeds conflict.

Work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested that this environmental factor was not to blame for civil war in Africa.

Instead, Dr Halvard Buhaug, from the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway, concluded that the conflict was linked to other factors such as high infant mortality, proximity to international borders and high local population density.

Commenting on the latest research, he said: "I disagree with the sweeping conclusion (the authors) draw and believe that their strong statement about a general causal link between climate and conflict is unwarranted by the empirical analysis that they provide.

"I was surprised to see not a single reference to a real-world conflict that plausibly would not have occurred in the absence of observed climatic extremes. If the authors wish to claim a strong causal link, providing some form of case validation is critical."

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