It is incredibly easy to throw in "climate change" at the end of any list of factors to explain this or that event. Indeed, who is ever going to dispute it? Climate change is, by its very nature, everywhere- so everywhere it can be used as an explanation of something.
The links you provide follow this rule, listing many good reasons for the Syrian water scarcity (and not for the Syrian conflict)- such as dramatic population increase (83% increase in 23 years), land and water resources mismanagement, bad economic measures, wasteful agricultural practices- and throwing in climate change in the end, just to be safe.
In general, one could question how much sense does it make to even cite a far and dubious cause like climate change when more obvious causes are perfectly evident. My favourite example was a WHO report which calculated the future global health impact of climate change as an additional 250000 deaths per year. A huge number. And the method to get it was the following: given the current total number of deaths due to diarrohea, malaria and undernutrition (about 7 million deaths yearly- all of which in developing countries, therefore due to poverty and perfectly preventable), multiplying them by 3.5% (the projected impact of climate change on these issues) and voila... an excellent case for spending some 44 trillion dollars to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy. Or not?
You're arguing with people who have a religious view towards climate change. That poster, Smaug123, just came close to justifying the use of nuclear weapons in the other thread to the grandparent comment, don't take them seriously.
You've shown yourself to be insulting. You've shown yourself to argue for a case that the Syrian war is caused by climate change. You read a post where someone took an inflammatory meme out of context, and tries to make sense out of a situation where climate change could lead to nuclear war:
> "Guns don't kill people! People kill people!"
> Having climate change around sure makes it easier for people to work themselves into positions where they have to use the nukes.
And you defended it by insulting my intelligence. I am really not impressed.
The links you provide follow this rule, listing many good reasons for the Syrian water scarcity (and not for the Syrian conflict)- such as dramatic population increase (83% increase in 23 years), land and water resources mismanagement, bad economic measures, wasteful agricultural practices- and throwing in climate change in the end, just to be safe.
Anyway, this is a 2015 article by Mike Hulme debunking the link between climate change and Syrian war: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/29/climat...
In general, one could question how much sense does it make to even cite a far and dubious cause like climate change when more obvious causes are perfectly evident. My favourite example was a WHO report which calculated the future global health impact of climate change as an additional 250000 deaths per year. A huge number. And the method to get it was the following: given the current total number of deaths due to diarrohea, malaria and undernutrition (about 7 million deaths yearly- all of which in developing countries, therefore due to poverty and perfectly preventable), multiplying them by 3.5% (the projected impact of climate change on these issues) and voila... an excellent case for spending some 44 trillion dollars to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy. Or not?