One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict

• DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1266-1
• Publication Date: 2014-10-22T09:20:46Z
• Authors: H. Buhaug; J. Nordkvelle; T. Bernauer; T. Böhmelt; M. Brzoska; J. W. Busby; A. Ciccone; H. Fjelde; E. Gartzke; N. P. Gleditsch; J. A. Goldstone; H. Hegre; H. Holtermann; V. Koubi; J. S. A. Link; P. M. Link; P. Lujala; J. O′Loughlin; C. Raleigh; J. Scheffran; J. Schilling; T. G. Smith; O. M. Theisen; R. S. J. Tol; H. Urdal; N. von Uexkull
• Keywords: Scientific consensus

A recent Climatic Change review article reports a remarkable convergence of scientific evidence for link between climatic events and violent intergroup conflict, thus departing markedly from other contemporary assessments the empirical literature. This commentary revisits in order to understand discrepancy. We believe origins disagreement can be traced back article's underlying quantitative meta-analysis, which suffers shortcomings with respect sample selection analytical coherence. modified assessment that addresses some these problems suggests research on climate conflict date has produced mixed inconclusive results.