Believers extol the infant Christ, after whom the global climate oscillation El Nino is named, as the Prince of Peace. Not so, according to a new analysis by Solomon Hsiang of Columbia University and his colleagues. Looking at data on weather and warfare from around the world over the past six decades, Dr Hsiang finds that in those countries where El Nino exerts its effects it brings with it a significant extra risk of civil conflict.
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