Prince Charles On Syria

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3329855/Now-Prince-Charles-blames-horrors-Syria-war-failure-tackle-climate-change.html

The fault of climate change???????????????????

Being as climate change has been mentioned, a program on tv had a Science Professor explaining that humans were not entirely to blame for Climate change.
Volcanoes put a lot of co'2 into the atmosphere, but it's been found that there are thousands of under sea volcanoes also putting thousands of tons of CO2 into the air as well. Could that be a cause of Climate Change that has not been thought of?

@ stormee...he's wrong...for the moment.....

Perhaps you should have a read:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11446093/Syrias-civil-war-linked-to-global-warming.html

The conflict that has torn Syria apart can be traced, in part, to a record drought worsened by global warming, a new study claims.
In what scientists say is one of the most detailed and strongest connections between violence and human-caused climate change, researchers from Columbia University and the University of California Santa Barbara trace the effects of Syria's drought from the collapse of farming, to the migration of 1.5 million farmers to the cities, and then to poverty and civil unrest.
Syria's drought started in 2007 and continued until at least 2010 - and perhaps longer. Weather records are more difficult to get in wartime.
"There are various things going on, but you're talking about 1.5 million people migrating from the rural north to the cities," said climate scientist Richard Seager at Columbia, a co-author of the study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "It was a contributing factor to the social unravelling that occurred that eventually led to the civil war."

Continues on link.

Not the cause, but a contributing factor to the unrest that started it all.

Complete rubbish!!!

it is obviously a factor as it has created strain on water resources in the region.
Don't think it can be said to be the 'cause' but maybe the straw that broke the camels back in Syria

Bollocks!!!


One of Sassys recent posts quoted someone there saying that all was great in Syria for everyone before they themselves started their unnecessary 'Arab spring' style protests for the sake of protest etc...

well they're wrong Tommy.
http://www.irinnews.org/report/85963/syria-drought-driving-farmers-to-the-cities

Note that the article is from 2009 6 years ago.

DAMASCUS, 2 September 2009 (IRIN) - Thousands of Syrian farming families have been forced to move to cities in search of alternative work after two years of drought and failed crops followed a number of unproductive years.

"The situation has now got really severe; we are talking about desert, rather than farming land," said Abdel Qader Abu Awad, MENA (Middle East and North Africa) disaster management coordinator for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). "People cannot live in this environment any more and their final coping mechanism is migration."

I must admit the UK probably would be better off under Charles leadership that any leaders you have had in since 2000 at least...

So that's it tommy. Your opinion- climate change has had zero effect on conditions in Syria?

Tommy Monk wrote:Bollocks!!!


One of Sassys recent posts quoted someone there saying that all was great in Syria for everyone before they themselves started their unnecessary 'Arab spring' style protests for the sake of protest etc...

That is a total lie, a complete fabrication on your part.  At no time have I ever said any such thing.

Sassy, you made a thread with an article/story about some young Syrian woman immigrant/refugee, and in this story was a bit where she said Syria was great and all good before the protests and the trouble that started from them... she also said she was a willing and active participant in the protests...


This was only a couple of months or so ago, and others also commented on this point.