Climate change. Climate change also has significant national security implications. ones we simply cannot ignore because they will impact our shores. The crisis in Syria and the flow of refugees from unstable parts of the world is an early warning of how humanitarian crises. particularly from less stable parts of our shared planet. are likely to get worse if we continue to let climate change go unaddressed. Back in 2011. when prodemocracy protests began in Syria. many of those joining were displaced farmers. who had suffered their fourth year of drought made worse by the effects of climate change. The National Academy of Sciences published findings earlier this year showing that extreme drought in Syria between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due to climate change and that the drought was a factor in the uprisings in 2011.
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