Quote:
Originally Posted by scottw
you and Bernie act as though the problem just popped up recently and the rest of the left acts as though ISIS is the sole purveyor...
|
Ding, ding, ding. "Lets go kill Westerners because of Climate Change"
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nebe
“In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism,” Bernie Sanders said during Saturday’s debate. “And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say you’re going to see countries all over the world — this is what the CIA says — they’re going to be struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops. And you’re going to see all kinds of international conflict.”
Since the overwhelming majority of pundits and policymakers don’t understand the existential threat climate change poses, Sanders remarks were criticized, much as fellow presidential candidate Martin O’Malley’s were back in July. Yet for over three years, leading security and climate experts — and Syrians themselves — have made the connection between climate change and the Syrian civil war. Indeed, when a major peer-reviewed study came out on in March making this very case, Retired Navy Rear Admiral David Titley said it identifies “a pretty convincing climate fingerprint” for the Syrian drought.
Titley, a meteorologist who led the U.S. Navy’s Task Force on Climate Change when he was at the Pentagon, also said, “you can draw a very credible climate connection to this disaster we call ISIS right now.”
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
Rear Admiral David Titley - never heard of her (just kidding - too opportune to pass up) . There are a lot of smart Natsec and Ex Navy folk saying that the current Navy is so far removed from the warrior spirit due to the SocialJustice revolution in the government, we better hope there is no real peer level war.