Liberal Nonsense Alert: Martin O’Malley Claims ‘Climate Change’ Created ISIS

by Shifra on July 22, 2015

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Ok, kids, please take notes.

This is from Democrat Candidate Martin O’Malley, and it’s very deep:

See, there was this mega-drought in Syria, due to ‘Climate Change,’ which wiped out farmers, which caused people to move to cities, which created a humanitarian crisis, which created extreme poverty, which led to the creation of ISIS, which led to extreme violence, which…blah blah.

Via Weekly Standard:

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  1. Alain41 says:
    July 22, 2015 at 11:49

    http://ens-newswire.com/2014/02/28/assad-regimes-drought-response-triggered-syrian-war/

    In 2014, Dutch scientist published study that says Syrian drought of 2006-2010 ended up driving people from rural areas to the cities and was ‘a trigger’ for the civil unrest that has occurred. BUT, she said that the prime reason for that was mismanagement of water resources by Syrian gov’t for the last 50 years (Hafez al-Assad became Syrian President in 1970). In essence, Syrian gov’t policy was over-farming of the land (Hello Dust Bowl). She specifically said that it’s possible climate change contributed to the drought but that the drought was not special and the long-term gov’t water mismanagement was the true culprit for destruction of farms. She did not say that there weren’t other inputs, such as Arab Spring.

    Obama admin. had National Academy of Science publish study earlier this year that blames the drought on climate change, which led to the civil unrest which birthed ISIS. So it’s ‘settled science’ you see. The Great and Powerful Oz has spoken.

  2. n9zf says:
    July 22, 2015 at 12:05

    Ahh, the joy of pandering to the base. I suggest O’Malley blame the extinction of unicorns on the unsavory eating habits of Tea Party Hobbits. Those second breakfasts have to go!

  3. Piquerish says:
    July 22, 2015 at 13:07

    The climate of our benighted old planet has been changing since even before it was a cloud of hydrogen and primordial dust. Through ice ages, including one so severe and long-lasting that it is known as “Snowball Earth,” through periods of dread warmings, through the reforming and reshaping of plate tectonics and volcanism, the planet changed, changes and will change perpetually – always has and always will, with or without us. If the Earth stops changing then time also has stopped and we have entered the Never Never Land of stasis. If people do change the climate at all, it’s got to be all the humid heat generated in the fever swamps of the liberal control-freak mind.

  4. Maynard says:
    July 22, 2015 at 18:47

    O’Malley’s taking his cue from Obama. This is from Obama’s recent commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy:

    Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world. Yet what we also know is that severe drought helped to create the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group Boko Haram. It’s now believed that drought and crop failures and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East. So, increasingly, our military and our combatant commands, our services—including the Coast Guard—will need to factor climate change into plans and operations, because you need to be ready.

    In other words, climate change didn’t exactly cause the conflicts, but except they sort of did. And even if you agree with this tenuous logic, keep in mind that these words are supposed to inspire our men in the field who stand up against the bad guys. These are the guys with guns in their hands, and he’s telling them to go out there and fight climate change. What an ignorant putz.

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