San Francisco, Nov 25, (RHC)- A team of researchers are predicting that rising temperatures in Africa will lead to more civil wars over the next 20 years. The researcher’s study is said to provide the first quantitative evidence linking climate change and the risk of civil conflict.

David Lobell, assistant professor at the Woods Institute at Stanford, told reporters: “What we found was, surprisingly, is that there is not only a clear effect but a very strong effect in the incidents of civil war and the state of the climate system."

The climate change expert pointed out that there is a 50 percent increase in the occurrence of civil war in Africa and that nearly 400,000 people will die because of the climate change increase in civil war conflict.”

In other news, more than 130 Australians were arrested at a sit-in outside Australia’s Parliament. The protesters called on the Australian government to commit to a 40 percent emissions reduction in 2000 levels by 2020.