Feeling blue as the weather starts getting more wintery? The wider implications of long-term weather trends on human culture are startling. Scientists have recently performed statistical analyses that show correlation between periods of shifting climate and wars and other social upheavals. The premise is not startling - basically, the weather gets colder for a few years, the crops are not as bountiful or fail altogether, and human life becomes stressed. Stressed humans are grouchy, and they take out their upset on each other. Voila, war.
Read more here: Got War? Blame the Weather via news.sciencemag.org
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