This is an actual comment coming from a Presidential Candidate: “One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation-state of Syria and 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 symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,” O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, told Bloomberg news in a question about foreign policy. These are the jokers trying to lead our country. Folks we are in a world of hurt if any of these Democratic candidates and half the Republicans get into to office. We had better do our homework on these clowns. There has been conflict in the Middle East since the beginning of time.
The same arrogance that inspires people to believe man can change the climate, inspires mankind to believe they can irrigate an arid desert and make agriculture sustainable.
Mankind is pretty destructive forces, we can change the climate, we can obliterate this planet with a push of a few buttons. Now this dude is a moron and has 0 bases for his comments.
I think the discussion is about mankinds every day activities not an all out nuke war. I am so tired of people blaming the water woes from the epic drought in the SW and California. Living in and growing produce in the desert is not sustainable based on the growing populations. It is called evolution adapt or die.
Even every day activities have an effect on climate/Earth, the question is to what extent does it effect. Why do we have more flooding? Because man destroyed all the wetlands, so we have and will continue to to change variables in how the climate effects us with what we do. Example, trying to grow produce and over population places that can sustain it. My question is what affect does this have on the region 20 years from now?
You're right. Zero basis, like he just made it up right there on stage.... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/02/syria-climate-change_n_6786364.html
No, other people made it up and he used it. The global warming science community has already fessed up to loading false data to get money from "CERTIAN" interest groups. Before this year Texas was going through the largest drought in that states history, didn't see any fighting going on and WOW the climate changed and they got flooded. Global warming or climate change what ever it's called now, is completely false. Not one shred of reliable evidence, half the scientists that backed global warming is now backing out and exposing the lies they spewed to support the current Administration. I blame cows and pigs, it's all their fault, it's a more believable story than the junk coming from the White House. It's all trash!
I saw a published article one time that said eating chocolate will help you lose weight. It was published in multiple reliable news outlets. The problem is, the science was absolute BS. The experiment was actually to see if the media actually did an fact checking to make sure the study was accurate. Point being, just because someone writes an opinion article doesn't really mean you should use it for your political platform.
Hey, Western States Lake Michigan and Huron should be up in near a foot in lake levels, mean while at Lake Mead.
Funny how we had a couple hot years and they called it Global Warming, now the same scientists say the earth is in a 5 year cooling period, so they changed the name to Climate Change.
I think the old say "those who build their house upon the sand" kinda sticks out in my mind. Lake Mead is a man made body of water, and people foolishly built their homes and industry around a non-natural water source in the desert. That has less to do with climate change and more to do with human arrogance.
When we suck the Colorado river dry and we will, what happens to the Eco system around the river? Will ISIS show up?
"News flash"....the climate does, in fact, change. I'm less concerned with unintentional climate change from mankind than the intentional kind. HAARP, mad scientists devoted to the global warming/climate change religion contemplating methodology to terraform the earth, etc... It has been seriously discussed releasing huge amounts of sun blocking material into the atmosphere around the equator in order to reverse the effects of global warming...how smart is that?
