The Syrian drought of 2006-2010 fits in climate trend of lower precipitation and higher temperatures, this graph shows

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Over 2006 to 2010 a prolonged drought, unprecedented in modern documented history, caused a farming collapse in Northeastern Syria. Winter rainfall in the otherwise green & productive ‘Fertile Crescent’ decreased by at least a third in Syria (and up to … Continue reading →

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The Syrian drought of 2006-2010 fits in climate trend of lower precipitation and higher temperatures, this graph shows

More people, less food? Climate change causes North African cereal production to decrease. Uncertainty about eastern Sahel though

Let’s not ignore demography as potential driver to conflict & migrations – populations Syria, Libya, Yemen and Egypt more than quadrupled between 1950 and onset of Arab Spring