Climate security

Melting glacier? Yawn. Climate change is boring, worthy – and terrifying

The truth is climate change has already given us ever more extreme weather, including intense heatwaves and rain storms. New research suggests that such heatwaves could render much of the Gulf uninhabitable without drastic measures. The singer Charlotte Church was mocked when, on Question Time earlier this year, she suggested that climate change had fuelled the Syrian war. But that is indeed what scientists themselves suggest could have happened, a huge drought having driven rural workers into Syrian cities. This week, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, also suggested that climate change could have helped fuel conflict in both Syria and Nigeria.