Syrian children eat a snack as refugees and migrants gather near the border of Turkey and Bulgaria on Sept. 11. (Bulent Kilic, AFP/ Getty Images)
Re: “Responding to the Syrian refugee crisis,” Sept. 16 letters to the editor.
Letter-writer Richard Stacy challenges the assertion by letter-writer Robert Beck that one factor in the Syrian refugee crisis is climate change. Look it up: In the March 2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, investigators noted: “There is evidence that the 2007?2010 drought contributed to the conflict in Syria. It was the worst drought in the instrumental record, causing widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers.” Study authors concluded that “human influences on the climate system are implicated in the current Syrian conflict.”
Ross Kelman, Denver
This letter was published in the Sept. 23 edition.
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