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Effect of water temperature on civil unrest

19.07.2012

Statisticians from Princeton University (USA) analyzed 234 episodes of civil unrest and unrest that took place from 1950 to 2004 in 175 countries of the world, and found that in 90 countries experiencing the influence of El Niño, the likelihood of conflicts during the years of this oceanic phenomenon was twice as high as in countries far from the equatorial part of the Pacific Ocean.

El Niño is an intermittent warming of the upper layers of water off the coast of Peru, lasting more than a year. It affects the climate mainly in South America, where floods or droughts can occur during El Niño years. The weather affects mainly those countries where the entire economy is tied to agriculture and unrest can arise in case of crop failure. In the twentieth century, especially powerful El Niño events occurred in 1925-1926, 1982-1983 and 1997-1998.

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