Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The shameless attempt by green activists like Prince Charles and President Obama, to link Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War, has just lost even more credibility thanks to The Guardian;
Is climate change really to blame for Syria’s civil war?
Prince Charles is the latest high-profile figure to echo claims that ‘securitise’ the conflict. But the evidence just doesn’t stack up.
Was the Syrian civil war partly caused by climate change? Prince Charles, for one, seems to think so. “There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years,” he told Sky News, adding that climate change is having a “huge impact” on conflict and terrorism.
The Prince is not alone on this one: he joins a chorus of voices making similar claims. In the US President Obama, Al Gore, and the democratic presidential hopefuls Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders have all talked of a link between climate change and the Syria conflict, Sanders going so far as to argue that climate change is “directly related to the growth of terrorism”.
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This time round, there at least appears to be some scientific support for the climate-conflict thesis: a study by Earth scientists at Columbia University, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found: “Climate change is implicated in the current Syrian conflict”. The problem is, this study is deeply flawed.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/29/climate-change-syria-civil-war-prince-charles
When even the über green Guardian expresses skepticism of a climate scare story, that horse isn’t going to get up and go for a gallop, no matter how hard you flog it.
It’s hard to buy into the climate change thing given that most of the ISIS movement and rebel activity is along the Euphrates river, which, last time I checked, hasn’t dried out (the Iraqis would have noticed that). Besides, climate doesn’t conveniently segregate itself within political borders, so similar unrest should be hitting Israel and Turkey. But, for some reason, the problems almost immediately stop at the Syrian border, save for the migrant wave hitting Europe, which itself was caused by a political blunder by Merkel and not climate change.
The author of the Guardian article is Prof Mike Hulme!!!
Former director of CRU
Founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Organiser of the infamous. Invitation to influence Kyoto open letter
And infamous for funding CMEP to keep msceptics of the BBC
No doubt the eco warriors will be calling him a climate denier very soon.
Sounds (hotwhopper) already has months ago
Who could have known that “Allahu Akbar” means “Please feed me”?
Ah, that is because you have made a mistranslation.
They are actually shouting ‘Aveyoua Snackbar….’
Could it be that the fact that even the Grauniad failed to back Prince Charles on the Syrian War/CAGW link, indicates that there is a finite limit to Public Stupidity.
But climate change probably did cause the war in Syria – If you are talking about the Bronze age collapse that was brought about by a sudden cooling in the climate around 3600 ago. Syria became a battle ground between the empires of the Hittites, Assyrians, Mitanni and Egyptians. (wikipedia)
Prince Charles is into organic farming, but the Syrian war is a political war, and climate has nothing to do with it. Accept 100,000s of refugees are moving into Europe. Some bent on killing Europeans as they sneak past the borders. Royalty including the Prince of Wales should never, ever give political opinions. I am sure that her majesty Queen Elizabeth will not be amused. He’ll get a rebuke I suspect from the British public. It’s a nonsensical comment anyway.
“Prince” Charles” “There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years”
This recognition of “very good evidence” coming from someone who actually thinks global climate is changing because humans have done something to cause it? It sort of follows that Chuck has no real grasp on the meaning of words like “very good” and “evidence”.
At last some degree of sanity.
But I still have to question the sanity of our governmental systems. We have a vote in the UK this week about whether to bomb Syria. But our elected representatives still know nothing of the region or its history. We still have some MPs thinking this dispute and civil war was caused by Mossaad, Obarmy, an oil pipeline dispute, or perhaps climate change. But Hafez Assad, Basher Assad’s father, had exactly the same uprising in 1982, which was put down in exactly the same manner. Was this uprising caused by climate or oil pipelines?? Search for the Hama massacre, which killed an estimated 30,000 people.
How can our representatives make informed descisions when our propaganda agency (the BBC) will not even inform them and us of the history of the region, the history of the people, and the history of this conflict? The government may as well outsource this week’s important vote on Syria to a local kindergarten – you would end up with an equally considered and reasoned result.
Ralph