Special Report on Climate Change - New Scientist Environment

Special Report on Climate Change - New Scientist Environment
New Scientist has just run another special issue on climate change covering a range of issues from the role of iodine in the oceans to the reasons why green buildings have not been as popular as they should be. There is detailed coverage of the new Australian cap and trade system and an interesting piece on the relationship between climate change and war in Chinese history. This theme came up in the early nineties as a number of international relations scholars wondered out loud about whether climate change and environmental degradation in general could cause conflict. Generally, the view at the time was that war is driven by far more complex factors that climate change.