Ottawa Citizen: They say a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a tornado on the other side of the world. Can a drought in China cause a revolution in Egypt? And can that connection answer the question: why should Canada spend valuable tax dollars on foreign aid when we have people in need right here?
A fascinating new study, The Arab Spring and Climate Change, essentially applies the Butterfly Effect to global current affairs, examining how climate change may have influenced the revolutions that rocked the…