From The Daily Caller
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
Former Vice President Al Gore said the recent Central American migrant caravans seeking asylum in the U.S. were fleeing the ravages of global warming.
Gore said the so-called “dry corridor,” which includes El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, “is the most vulnerable region in the world to global warming.”
“And they’ve gone without a harvest this year. Some have gone without a harvest for two years,” Gore told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview Wednesday. “That is one of the principal causes for them making that long journey.”
Thousands of Central American migrants have joined caravans headed for the U.S.-Mexico border in order to seek asylum. Most experts see them as economic migrants, coming to the U.S. for work, not fleeing global warming. (RELATED: Liberal Democrats Most Likely To Believe ‘Climate Deniers’ Deserve It When Hurricanes Hit, Researchers Say)
This isn’t the first time Gore linked global warming to recent migrant caravans. In December, Gore called the caravans a “recent, startling example” of global warming forcing people to flee their homes.
Migrants wait in line to get transportation during their journey towards the United States, in Ingenio Santo Domingo, Mexico, January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini – RC118D968120
However, Gore is not the first to label the caravans “climate refugees.” It’s part of a broader media narrative to link the thousands joining U.S.-bound caravans to global warming.
For example, The Guardian ran a story in October citing alleged experts who “say the big picture is that changing climate is forcing farmers off their land and it’s likely to get worse.”
That same month, The Huffington Post said the migrant caravan “foreshadows” what’s to come with global warming. And E&E News called the caravan a “preview of climate migrations,” that is, people driven from their homes due to man-made global warming.
Conflict scholars have largely debunked many of the claims linking global warming to armed conflict and migration.
To stem the tide of migrants, Gore said the U.S. needs to bring more economic and job security to Central America and work with the region’s governments “so they are not driven away from their homes.”
They’re not “caravans”, they’re mobs.
What kind of people work for this clown?
So these climate caravans clowns want to freeze their butts off in the US instead? DUMB!!
I knew this was going to happen right after Global Warming totally blew an interference call in the Saints – Rams game.
I’m seeing one of those alernate history TV dramas, where Al Gore actually becomes President and the US is a smoking ruin overun with alarmist zombies chanting slogans.
I think I understand why Al was so concerned about the ozone layer so may years ago.
He lives out in the ozone.
The Goracle is a pathological liar.
While Al Gore has the wrong cause — Global Warming — he has the right cure – “more economic and job security to Central America “.
My personal experience bears this out. After ten years doing humanitarian work in the Latin Caribbean, my take away point was that to really help overcome poverty the people just need steady decent paying jobs — they don’t need US wages — just dependable steady wages — a weekly paycheck that doesn’t evaporate at the whim of the first economic hiccup.
The economic migrants are not streaming north to get on welfare (though many will end up there) they are coming because there are jobs here. Many hope to work and be able to send money to their relatives back home.
There’s a good mental hosopital in Tennessee: The Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute. Wish you luck there Mr. Gore.
Well AG now has plenty of billions from his scams and lies. Perhaps he could use some of it and put his money where his mouth is.
Getting away from Gore and his nonsense if a 1st world country refuses to accept these so called refugees, who are largely economic ones, then they will have to sort out their problems back in their their own country.
True this may well be a violent and bloody affair, but it is the only way. But the Media much prefer to screen pictures of mothers holding high their babies. How can you be so cruel to refuse us entry.
Democrats or the socialist equivelents in other countries want such people. They add to the socialist vote, at least in the short term.
MJE
“And they’ve gone without a harvest this year. Some have gone without a harvest for two years,”
Does the Border Patrol keep track of the occupations claimed by these ‘refugees’? Just what percentage of them are ‘farmers’ who went “… without a harvest …”?