Why climate change of course, isn’t it obvious? To be fair, the author is right that the area is experiencing extreme drought, but doesn’t a river (Euphrates) run through it? Look at the reservoirs in google earth and it doesn’t appear the levels have dropped much. Fucking libs are a one-trick pony.
Republicans Are Still Totally Wrong About ISIS
On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley made an astute observation about ISIS in an interview with Bloomberg.
“One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation-state of Syria, the rise of ISIS, was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis [that] created the…conditions of extreme poverty that has led now to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,” said the former Maryland governor.
Republicans were quick to seize on the comment as an indication of O’Malley’s weak grasp of foreign policy. Reince Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee, said the suggestion of a link between ISIS’s rise to power and climate change was “absurd” and a sign that “no one in the Democratic Party has the foreign policy vision to keep America safe.”
Here’s the thing, though: O’Malley is totally right. As we’ve reportedheremanytimes, Syria’s civil war is the best-understood and least ambiguous example of a case where an impact of climate change—in this case, an unprecedented drought that devastated rural farmers—directly contributed to violent conflict and political upheaval. There is no shortage of high-quality, peer-reviewed research explicating this link. As O’Malley said, the drought made it more difficult for rural families to survive off of farming. So they moved to cities in huge numbers, where they were confronted with urban poverty and an intransigent, autocratic government. Those elements clearly existed regardless of the drought. But the drought was the final straw, the factor that brought all the others to a boiling point.
Does this mean that America’s greenhouse gas emissions are solely responsible for ISIS’s rise to power? Obviously not. But it does mean that, without accounting for climate change, you have an incomplete picture of the current military situation in the Middle East. And without that understanding, it will be very difficult for a prospective commander-in-chief to predict where terrorist threats might emerge in the future.
The link between climate and security isn’t particularly controversial in the defense community. Earlier this year, President Barack Obama called climate change an “urgent and growing threat” to national security. A recent review by the Defense Department concluded that climate change is a “threat multiplier” that exacerbates other precursors to war, while the Center for Naval Analysis found that climate change-induced drought is already leading to conflict across Africa and the Middle East.
In other words, O’Malley’s comment is completely on-point. If Priebus and his party are serious about defeating ISIS and preventing future terrorist uprisings, they can’t continue to dismiss the role of climate change.
Liberals are to the mind what ISIS is to the neck. The thing is, ISIS has a limited number of swords, while there’s seemingly no end to the intellectually dishonest and morally debased liberals in media, government, and academia.
As I was reading, I figured this was from theOnion; finishing, saw it was from the wacky and lefty ‘motherjones’. Hey, anyone notice it is getting warm? Must be that life-giving CO2 causing me to use the AC when the temp reaches 88F (and humid). Fucking CO2 causing seasons and it gets hot in Summer.
Thank goodness NOAA updated their charts with the Karl et. al., study(ship intake readings so much better than the modern ARGO buoys which were designed to measure ocean temps at varying depths). Using the Karl study eliminates that pesky ‘pause’ or ‘hiatus’; you know, where the temps haven’t risen for 18 years but CO2 has kept increasing.
I now live in a country where every government official lies, even before CONgress and you can keep your Doctor/Health Plan; where the NSA taps into everything (the Stasi would be sooooo jealous); where every federal government funded NGO (Uni’s, Science organizations, education) defers to the political agenda (lies) in order to continue to receive funding. For the sheep that believe in Adjusted and Homogenized ‘science’, Global Warming is a gravy train for crony capitalism and a potential funding boon to the bankrupt developed countries.
In other words …
Mustafa: “Mother, I’m thirsty.”
Mustafa’s Mom: “We ain’t got no water. Now go cut off someone’s head.”
The real reason for ISIS;
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The REAL reson for the rise of ISIS…………….CIA.
Oops- That would be reason not reson.
Republican neo-cons. Shall I name them? Wait a minute, many of you selected them. Atonement is near.