A Climate Scientist's View of a Famine's Roots

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/a-climate-scientists-view-of-a-famines-roots/

He notes that politics and the lack of governance are prime drivers of the Somali famine. But he also asserts that over-reliance on the 2007Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change analysis of impacts in Africa — which projected more rain in East Africa in a warming world, not less — lulled some agencies into discounting drought risks there.More recently, the Indian Ocean analysis by Funk and a colleague, A. Park Williams, along with other studies, points to drying — and a contribution from human-driven global warming.