ISIS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

The Link Between Climate Change And ISIS Is Real

Joe Romm, July 23, 2015 (ThinkProgress)

“Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley linked climate change to the rise of ISIS earlier this week. Conservatives pounced. Score this round for O’Malley…For three years now, leading security and climate experts — and Syrians themselves — have made the connection between climate change and the Syrian civil war. Indeed, Retired Navy Rear Admiral [and former Deputy Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance David Titley, a meteorologist, said Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought] identifies ‘a pretty convincing climate fingerprint’ for the Syrian drought…[T] he science underpinning what O’Malley, Admiral Titley, and others have said [stands up well to scrutiny]…The bottom line: Homo sapiens is currently on track to make drought and extreme drying the normal condition for the Southwest, Central Plains, the Amazon, southern Europe, the entire region around the Mediterranean, and many other key areas post-2050 [and there will likely be situations in the future our security forces may have to respond to]…” click here for more

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