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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on September 05, 2013, 09:01:33 AM
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What else can it be if you have a house that uses 25 times the energy of your average suburban single family residence?
n2doc (27,953 posts)
How Climate Change Warmed Syria Up for War
By Brian Merchant
Most Americans' understanding of the root of the Syrian conflict boils down to something like this: Bashar al-Assad is a sociopathic maniac who'd rather mow down his own people than relinquish dictatorship. While that's undoubtedly part of the equation, there's obviously a lot more at play than that. And some of the blame, scholars argue, can be traced all the way to climate change.
As was the case with many of the nations touched by the Arab Spring, a large swath of Syria's citizenry wasn't just poor, oppressed, and disenfranchised by an authoritarian regime—they were starving, too. And they were starving because Syria had been stricken by a five year drought believed to be exacerbated by climate change. There was eventually too little rain to even grow crops or to feed livestock.
William Polk, an ex-US State Department advisor, has written a meticulously detailed account of the genesis of the conflict over at The Atlantic. As Digby writes at Alternet, "It is the most cogent recitation and analysis of the Syrian crisis that I've seen."
It is also an exceptionally detailed case study of how, exactly, climate change can directly influence—even precipitate—a violent conflict. Considering Syria's path to war, step-by-step, provides a powerful breakdown of what might continue to happen in the future, so as long as the globe continues to warm, the food system continues to be in thrall to commodity traders and market swings, and vast swaths of the global population remain impoverished.
"Syria has been convulsed by civil war since climate change came to Syria with a vengeance," Polk writes. "Drought devastated the country from 2006 to 2011. Rainfall in most of the country fell below eight inches (20 cm) a year, the absolute minimum needed to sustain un-irrigated farming. Desperate for water, farmers began to tap aquifers with tens of thousands of new well. But, as they did, the water table quickly dropped to a level below which their pumps could lift it."
more
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/climate-change-warmed-syria-up-for-war
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023601855
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I have a hangnail.....climate change caused it. Will someone please call Al Gore and tell him? I don't have an Obamaphone.
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:thatsright:
Really? Global warming caused the Syrian civil war? Really?
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:thatsright:
Really? Global warming caused the Syrian civil war? Really?
Yes. It's just like Santa Claus....it's everywhere....it's everywhere.
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:thatsright:
Really? Global warming caused the Syrian civil war? Really?
In our Political Ammunition sub-forum I have an article about global warming killing the Loch Ness monster.
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The houses on "Hoarders" look like Algores's office.
I give even odds that somewhere in that mess you'll find the skeletal remains of a cat.
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Yeah we just had a summer in AL where it didn't hit 100 anywhere in the entire state. Also Hurricane season ends soon and have had no hurricanes. Just tropical storms and depressions. If Al Gore was so concerned about global warming he wouldn't live in such a unnecessarily large energy guzzling house. Bet he drives a tank of a SUV as well everyday. Biggest hypocrite on the face of the planet. So much for climate change Al. The cooling trend continues.
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The DUchebags do know that the more CO2 the more plants grow faster and better? Sheesh you would think that al the pot growers on the DUmp would tell them that.
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s was the case with many of the nations touched by the Arab Spring, a large swath of Syria's citizenry wasn't just poor, oppressed, and disenfranchised by an authoritarian regime—they were starving, too. And they were starving because Syria had been stricken by a five year drought believed to be exacerbated by climate change. There was eventually too little rain to even grow crops or to feed livestock.
Which, of course, is unique in all human history.
Before the SUV.
The DUchebags do know that the more CO2 the more plants grow faster and better? Sheesh you would think that al the pot growers on the DUmp would tell them that.
And just what happened to all the rainforests, that were supposed to be gone about 5 years ago?
.....and are thriving.....
.....on Co2.....
Plant food, idiots. Plant. Food.
The houses on "Hoarders" look like Algores's office.
I give even odds that somewhere in that mess you'll find the skeletal remains of a cat.
:-)
Hell, one montor is confusing enough for aLGoRe. He's gawking at three? I do like the stacks of useless leftist reference propaganda, stacked all over to give illusion of intense research.....
....OK, I am laughing to hard to continue......
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I give even odds that somewhere in that mess you'll find the skeletal remains of a cat.
..Undoubtedly killed by global warming...
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If Al Gore was so concerned about global warming he wouldn't live in such a unnecessarily large energy guzzling house.
I wondered why he bought a home here right on the ocean? Could have sworn he predicted the "seas to rise".
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Global warming HAS caused people to be loony. Fr'instance, it causes employees to turn off Fox News in their employer's auto showroom and hide remotes in rafters.
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Global warming HAS caused people to be loony. Fr'instance, it causes employees to turn off Fox News in their employer's auto showroom and hide remotes in rafters.
Good one! H5! :cheersmate:
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Oh, for God's sake, Al. What could you possibly be doing that would require all of that shit?
Piles of paper and books = dead trees = global warming. Three monitors = coal fired electrical generation = global warming. Maintaining your pyramid shape = 3,000 calories a day, high carbs and low fiber = methane = global warming.
Global warming is your fault, Al Gore. Own it.
And while you're at it, take that stupid plastic frog off the wall.
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And while you're at it, take that stupid plastic frog off the wall.
That's a DUmmie spiderman.
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(http://dilettanteville.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/gore_desk.jpg?w=780)
Oh, for God's sake, Al. What could you possibly be doing that would require all of that shit?
Piles of paper and books = dead trees = global warming. Three monitors = coal fired electrical generation = global warming. Maintaining your pyramid shape = 3,000 calories a day, high carbs and low fiber = methane = global warming.
Global warming is your fault, Al Gore. Own it.
And while you're at it, take that stupid plastic frog off the wall.
You know what you need to offset carbon?
TREES
I see a lot of carbon generation on those monitors and a lot of dead trees on the desk and shelves.
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You know what you need to offset carbon?
TREES
I see a lot of carbon generation on those monitors and a lot of dead trees on the desk and shelves.
One problem. Forests can actually cause global warming.
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One problem. Forests can actually cause global warming.
Hush, you!