• It would have been more precise to say that a long drought, which researchers link to climate change (7 March, p 6), made many Syrians destitute; that is thought to have triggered the 2011 wave of protests that triggered the current crisis.
Letter: Editor's reply to "Climate change as a conflict trigger"
Published 30 September 2015
Issue no. 3041 published 3 October 2015
