Over the years there have been a few articles trying to relate climate change and various kinds of political unrest. You'll have to take that assertion on faith, because I don't have URLs.
Conservatives tend to doubt the immediacy of global warming and to argue that humanity can adapt to changed conditions in the future, just as we have in the past.
On an individual basis, I've great faith in the ability of humans to adapt to the worse conditions. I do think global warming/climate change is real and there's a strong case for trying to cap greenhouse gases.
The turmoil associated with the migration of people from the Middle East and parts of Africa into Europe doesn't make me optimistic about our ability to adapt. Today the EU is struggling to handle millions (at most) of refugees. What happens when Bangladesh is struck by a strong cyclone, generating many more refugees than the EU is seeing--do we think that India will be able to handle them?
[Update: see this Grist piece on the subject of climate refugees.]
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