Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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But the existence of a climate change-influenced drought is not the only thing that needs to be true for the Syria hypothesis to work.
This drought needs to have caused a huge internal migration from rural to urban areas.
Colin Kelly's paper suggests that up to one and a half million Syrians left rural areas.
So is his figure of one and a half million people leaving rural areas accurate?
Here's Jan Selby again.
So the number of people who moved to cities is disputed.
But was drought the main reason for migration at that time?
Even if drought did cause a huge number of people to move into the cities in Syria, how would this have contributed to the conflict?
But Colin Kelly stands by his work.
So there you have it.
The academic who wrote the paper thinks climate change could be one of 15 major factors that have led to conflict in Syria.
You're listening to More or Less on the BBC World Service.
The Paris Climate Change Conference got underway on 30th November and it's being billed as the most important edition of the annual event.
The 21st Conference of the Parties, or COP21 as it's known, sees 195 nations come together to try to come to the world's first binding agreement to reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions with the aim of avoiding the threat of dangerous global warming due to human activities.
It's an event awash with numbers.
One of our listeners, Nigel Woods, heard a couple of them in this BBC radio programme.
Nigel emailed us to ask...
Well, to answer that question, here is more or less producer James Melly.
James, can this be right?
Well, that's all we've got time for this week, but if you have any numbers you'd like us to look at, please do contact us.
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