| | [[United Nations]] General Secretary [[Ban Ki Moon]] has referred to the Darfur slaughter as an [[ethnic conflict]] pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers arising at least in part from climate change. | | [[United Nations]] General Secretary [[Ban Ki Moon]] has referred to the Darfur slaughter as an [[ethnic conflict]] pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers arising at least in part from climate change. |
| | Citing U.N. statistics, Ban Ki Moon claim average precipitation has declined some 40 percent since the early 1980s and that it coincided with a rise in temperatures of the Indian Ocean, disrupting seasonal monsoons, suggesting that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from [[global warming]]. <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857.html A Climate Culprit In Darfur], By Ban Ki Moon, ''Washington Post'', June 16, 2007, Page A15</ref> | | Citing U.N. statistics, Ban Ki Moon claim average precipitation has declined some 40 percent since the early 1980s and that it coincided with a rise in temperatures of the Indian Ocean, disrupting seasonal monsoons, suggesting that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from [[global warming]]. <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857.html A Climate Culprit In Darfur], By Ban Ki Moon, ''Washington Post'', June 16, 2007, Page A15</ref> |