Sentences with phrase «cause mass migrations»

These new normal conditions will cause mass migrations on an unprecedented scale.

It hasn't helped that the more ground skeptics gain, the more strident PNAS, Nature, and Science seem to be and the more outrageous the papers they publish (The famous approved scientist and skeptic scientist list; GW will cause mass migration from Mexico, etc.).

Massive climate change over to cold and dry conditions caused mass migration and destabilized the surrounding civilizations the documentary then explains.

Not exact matches

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

It was the worst drought in the instrumental record, causing widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers.»

These may, or may not be related to AGW or anthropogenically caused climate disruption, but it really doesn't matter, for the results will be the same... mass migrations, food shortages, rising tensions between nations.

By displacing people from their homes and exacerbating food shortages, climate change will cause social breakdown and mass migration.

Droughts and flooding will cause food insecurity and mass migration, destabilizing the geopolitical situation, while American military installations face impacts from sea level rise.

Business and pollution as usual offers half - measures and promises action just in time, if we are lucky, before the planet warms sufficiently to cause massive crop failure as industrial civilization collapses amidst flood, drought, famine, war, mass migration of the desperate, epidemics.

While the country's brutal civil war is often presented as the cause of this mass migration, a study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may be rooted in an earlier environmental crisis, one linked to land degradation and long - term drought in the Fertile Crescent.

But I would wager that a 5 °C rise in global temperature could cause up to half the inhabited land to become unbearably hot and force mass migrations and starvation.

2007/04/17: ENN: Melting Himalayan Glaciers Pose Security Risk, UNEP Says Global warming will cause the Himalayan glaciers to melt, leading to mass migration and possibly conflicts over valuable resources such as agricultural land and fresh water, the U.N. Environment Programme chief said.