‘Did Global Warming Spark the Syrian War?’

One million refugees, more than 70,000 dead, scores injured, billions of dollars lost in destroyed homes, businesses and livelihoods: the net total, to date, of the conflict that started quietly in March 2011.

Its seeds, argue some scientists, were sown five years ago in a wretched drought.

That is the foundation of an essay by Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell of the Center for Climate and Security in Washington. It is part of a study released recently by the Center for American Progress titled “The Arab Spring and Climate Change.”Nowhere is the connection between climate change and conflict more apparent than in Syria.

http://planet3.org/2013/03/22/did-global-warming-spark-the-syrian-war/

“Should we count 70,000 mortality from climate wars already?”

Population growth, urbanization, access to employment, education. All are reasons to relocate. Demographics would be an issue in India.

Correlate movement to piracy in the Indian Ocean. That would tell you where the REAL problem lies …..

and another one here
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/2/27/still-still.html

and “Big Wind just got smaller”, relevant to Mike’s post is here

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/2/26/big-wind-just-got-smaller.html

All in all, combined with the phasing out of coal and nuclear capabilities in the UK, starting this year, things are looking pretty desperate

In today’s Times (02.02.11) it is reported that Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has published data confirming that its wind turbine fleet has reported a 20% reduction in energy generation in the last year. SSE is said to have released this data in response to requests from concerned shareholders.

http://www.ref.org.uk/publications/217-low-wind-power-output-2010

Coal and nuclear is going offline in many cases. People won’t just not be able to afford power. There won’t be any to buy

The chief executive of Consumer Focus, Mike O’Conner, warned that it would be those who can least afford it who would suffer the most.

“With six million households in fuel poverty, rising to over nine million by 2016, and an increasing proportion of our incomes being spent on essential items like energy, this latest news… is chilling.”

(Or would it be “wind farm refugees”, Andy?)

I wondered about that too Mile. It’s also a long way for so many people. I foresee logistical problems. The illegal immigrants (economic refugees) from Central America are already having enough problems moving from country to country and jumping on trains and trucks (saw a doco on that) let alone them being joined by hoards of the climate kind from South America.

It could be a case of miss-attribution of course.

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Hear, hear is an expression used as a short, repeated form of hear him, hear him. It represents a listener’s agreement with the point being made by a speaker. In recent usage it has often been re-analysed as here, here, although this is incorrect.[1]