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Moderate warming tipped to produce flood of refugees into Europe

Climate modelling finds temperature increase as significant as conflict in creating asylum-seekers. Jeff Glorfeld reports.

2015. Such scenes could become more common even under low-level global warming scenarios.
Migrants are escorted through fields by police as they are walked from the village of Rigonce to Brezice refugee camp on October 23, 2015. Such scenes could become more common even under low-level global warming scenarios. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/ Staff/ Getty Images