Interesting hypothesis, but probably a bit of a stretch: Prince Charles: Syria's war linked to climate change "Prince Charles has spoken exclusively to Sky News about his ongoing concerns about climate change, saying he believes there are links to the current refugee crisis and terrorism. In his only interview ahead of COP21, the UN's climate summit which opens next Monday, the Prince of Wales suggested that environmental issues may have been one of the root causes of the problems in Syria. He said: "We're seeing a classic case of not dealing with the problem, because, I mean, it sounds awful to say, but some of us were saying 20 years ago that if we didn't tackle these issues, you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought, and the accumulating effect of climate change, which means that people have to move. "And, in fact, there's very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough, was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land."..." http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...inked-to-climate-change/ar-BBnlMRR?li=BBnbfcL
Yes, Prince Charles the leading scientist and policy pundit, eh? They might have well interviewed a cartoon character from the comedy network.
He's not the only one.. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-syria-war-climate-change-drought/ A severe drought, worsened by a warming climate, drove Syrian farmers to abandon their crops and flock to cities, helping trigger a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, according to a new study published Monday. The research provides the most detailed look yet at how climate change may already be helping spark violent political unrest. "Up until now we've understood and established that changes in climate may affect human conflict in the future. But everything until now has stopped short of saying climate change is already having an effect," says Solomon Hsiang, a University of California, Berkeley professor who has studied the role of climate change in violence. He did not participate in the new study. The authors acknowledge that many factors led to Syria's uprising, including corrupt leadership, inequality, massive population growth, and the government's inability to curb human suffering. But their report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, compiled statistics showing that water shortages in the Fertile Crescent in Syria, Iraq, and Turkey killed livestock, drove up food prices, sickened children, and forced 1.5 million rural residents to the outskirts of Syria's jam-packed cities—just as that country was exploding with immigrants from the Iraq war. (Related: "Half of Syrians Displaced: 5 Takeaways From New UN Report.") The entire world needs to be planning for a drier future in that area. And there will be lots of global implications.
German Professor: NASA Has Fiddled Climate Data On ‘Unbelievable’ Scale byJAMES DELINGPOLE24 Nov 20150 A German professor has confirmed what skeptics from Britain to the US have long suspected: that NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies has largely invented “global warming” by tampering with the raw temperature data records. Professor Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert is a retired geologist and data computation expert. He has painstakingly examined and tabulated all NASA GISS’s temperature data series, taken from 1153 stations and going back to 1881. His conclusion: that if you look at the raw data, as opposed to NASA’s revisions, you’ll find that since 1940 the planet has been cooling, not warming. According to Günter Ederer, the German journalist who has reported on Ewert’s findings: From the publicly available data, Ewert made an unbelievable discovery: Between the years 2010 and 2012 the data measured since 1881 were altered so that they showed a significant warming, especially after 1950. […] A comparison of the data from 2010 with the data of 2012 shows that NASA-GISS had altered its own datasets so that especially after WWII a clear warming appears – although it never existed........ .....activist scientists at NASA GISS – initially led by James Hansen (pictured above), later by Gavin Schmidt – wanted the records they are in charge of maintaining to show warming not cooling, so they began systematically adjusting the data for various spurious reasons using ten different methods. The most commonly used ones were: - Reducing the annual mean in the early phase. - Reducing the high values in the first warming phase. - Increasing individual values during the second warming phase. - Suppression of the second cooling phase starting in 1995. - Shortening the early decades of the datasets. - With the long-term datasets, even the first century was shortened. Ewert’s findings echo that of US meteorologists Joseph D’Aleo and Anthony Watts who examined 6,000 NASA weather stations and found a host of irregularities both with the way they were sited and how the raw data had been adjusted to reflect such influences as the Urban Heat Island effect..... more: http://google.com/gwt/x?wsc=ol&sour...cale/&ei=L69VVvHhM8f_tQX087CABA&ct=pg1&whp=30
Great source, impressive website. In related news, Donald Trump saw thousands of people celebrating 9/11 in Jersey.
It is about time that a scientist called the Goddard Institute out on their nonsense by demonstrating the math.
Global warming!? blahahahahahahaha http://www.express.co.uk/news/scien...NG-six-years-Arctic-north-pole-climate-change "ANTARCTIC temperatures have cooled over the past six years, according to US space agency NASA."
For the moron Republicans.......which is all of them..... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-pause-in-global-warming/