Steve Sailer often speculates that whack-a-doodle items in the main stream press are just elaborate put-ons to get attention. It’s possible, but I don’t know. The Daily Kos makes clear that there are a lot of very crazy people out there.
Analysts often point to many factors that contributed to the rise of ISIS. Sunni frustration with the Shi’a-dominated central Iraqi government, the remnants of Al Qaeda in Arabia, and of course the disastrous U.S.-led war just to name a few. But another factor may have played an early role in destabilizing Syria:
We know the basic story in Syria by now: From 2006-2010, an unprecedented drought forced the country from a groundwater-intensive breadbasket of the region to a net food importer. Farmers abandoned their homes—school enrollment in some areas plummeted 80 percent—and flooded Syria’s cities, which were already struggling to sustain an influx of more than 1 million refugees from the conflict in neighboring Iraq. The Syrian government largely ignored these warning signs, helping sow discontent that ultimately spawned violent protests … A preventable drought-triggered humanitarian crisis sparked the 2011 civil war, and eventually, ISIS.A new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science provides the clearest evidence yet that human-induced global warming made that drought more likely. The study is the first to examine the drought-to-war narrative in quantitative detail in any country, ultimately linking it to climate change.
It’s unfortunate that we in the U.S. have senior policymakers playing rhetorical games with snowballs as the world warms up and populations are displaced. But climate change denial isn’t just bad science, it’s bad business. And since our elected leaders increasingly take marching orders from corporate America instead of we the people, perhaps we can hope global energy companies and related firms, many of which are highly leveraged in the Middle East, will conclude that simply denying climate change is bad for their shareholders.
You see. Your lawnmower causes ISIS.
Maybe is right, the Ancient Middle-East had much more varied wildlife, the Assyrian kings hunted lions every year, there was elephants in North Africa and Big cats in Greece.
The Roman Empire turned the Mediterranean area into a desert, maybe why such austere religions like Christianity and Islam triumphed.
Given that very little man does has any impact on the environment (Mother Earth tends to absorb it all without a blink) then as it is highly unlikely human intervention caused any climate change and turned murderous savages into even more murderous savages. The shenanigans in the Middle East are not caused by the fact our cars drink gas/petrol supplied by, er, the Middle East. It is ninety per cent religious fervour and the tribal traditions of barbarians, spiced up by nut jobs cloned from marrying their nearest cousin. Sure, crop failure makes people up-sticks and go somewhere else. But… Read more »
I can’t think of one problem that isn’t the direct result of climate change or racism. And as a side note it is the white man that is responsible for both. Oh wait, there is sexism too – again caused by white men. Now we have the enemy in the sights. The only problem is that white men are also the solution. What to do, what to do? sarc/off
A spectre is haunting the world— the spectre of the pale penis people.
Hotter than usual sand gets in Arabs’ sandals & makes them angry.
Drought is nothing new in that region. I’m so sick of the Climate Change/ Global Warming Blah Blah. No one but the True Believers buys into this. ISIS is beheading and crucifying people, they’re not all that interested in “climate change” except when climate change means murdering the remaining Christians & Jews still living in the Middle East.