One of the things that is noted is how the changing climate in the Middle East concentrated Syrian villages into the towns and sparked the civil war that has now produced something like 4 million and counting refugees, having profound impacts on European security, and that would be an example.
On the recordJanuary 10, 2017
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Merkley highlights climate change's role in the Syrian civil war and its refugee crisis.
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