I guess Kerry was right. The global change warming climate thingy really is the greatest threat in our time.
If we could just tax the climate with cap and trade, then we could provide jobs and shopping malls for these poor folks and they'd stop with all of the head chopping thing.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/climate-change-a-%e2%80%98contributing-factor%e2%80%99-in-syrian-conflict/ar-BBi9Jwp?ocid=DELLDHPFrom the article....
Moist air comes flowing off the Mediterranean into Syria each winter, unleashing rains that transform the dull brown countryside into myriad hues of green. But in 2005, the rains never fully materialized, the first of five consecutive failed rainy seasons that sparked the worst drought in Syria’s history and directly preceded the country’s descent into civil war.
A groundbreaking study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows that climate change doubled or even tripled the likelihood of
the drought that became part of a cascade of events that have killed and displaced millions, gave rise to Islamic State and left a country in ruins.
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When the drought hit in 2005 and reached its nadir in 2007 and 2008, the driest winter on record for Syria, farmers came pouring into urban areas — the same areas where up to 1.5 million Iraqi refugees fleeing the Iraq War settled between 2003 and 2007. The result was a 50 percent increase in Syria’s urban population compared to 2002.
All of this set the stage for 2011 when unrest broke out in Syria in January and eventually gave rise to a civil war and the Islamic State. The conflict has killed 210,000 and affected 10.8 million — nearly half of Syria’s total population — according to recent estimates.
