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Climate Change and Rising Food Prices Heightened Arab Spring
Scientific American ^ | Marrch 4, 2013 | Ines Perez

Posted on 03/04/2013 2:37:02 PM PST by lbryce

If the Arab Spring taught us something, it is that the effects of climate change can serve as stressors, contributing to regional instability and conflict, experts said.

In a report published last week, researchers from the Center for American Progress, the Center for Climate and Security and the Stimson Center examined the role of climate change in the Middle East's upheaval during 2010 and 2011. Looking at long-term trends in rain, crops, food prices and migration, they were able to determine how these factors contributed to social instability in the region.

"The Arab Spring would likely have come one way or another, but the context in which it did is not inconsequential. Global warming may not have caused the Arab Spring, but it may have made it come earlier," the report says.


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; arabspring; climatechange; globalhoaxing; greenreligion; pseudoscience
Climate Change is one of the greatest challenges we face in the modern era, a phenomena that has effected a multitude of human experiences in ways only recently discovered. Recent studies of absolute proven scientific fact has shown how Climate Change has had major impact on a whole host of human activities, experiences from professional sports, men's pants zippers suddenly disabling, huge increase reported in the number of wedgies happening at an alarming rate worldwide for both men and women, and certain political phenomena having occurred spontaneously across continents.

For example, baseball statisticians have noticed more strikeouts among professional baseball teams due to the ball rising imperceptibly with increased humidity causing hitters to miss the ball as they take full swing, that they would ordinarily manage a single or extra bases. And football quarterbacks have been off by 4.4% in pass completion due to increased humidity brought on by fossil fuel burning carrying the football slightly off course.

Pants manufacturers having noticed zippers getting stuck more often consulting with the Center for Climate Change says is a direct result of Global Warming causing zippers to bunch up an not slide up or down as easily as it does in winter.

The increase in wedgies among men and women of all ages posed a problem for the scientific team at the Institute for Wedgie Research not being able to find a direct cause for increased wedgies as of yet but they believe it very possibly a result of the Global Warming phenomena that tend to dry out elastic inner bands that keep underwear fitting snugly and thus end up with 'garment creep' that is typical of wedgie victims.

The greatest threat that Global Warming has posed is the 'reverse season syndrome' where a condition like Global Warming with the seasonal effect of summer time type climate causing the 'reverse season syndrome' where the humid weather associated with summer bringing a "spring like rebirth" in certain Sub-Sahara, desert regions as characterized by the 'Arab Spring' in areas of North, Western Africa, in countries such as Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and as far East as Syria.

1 posted on 03/04/2013 2:37:10 PM PST by lbryce
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To: lbryce
Scientific?

Bbbbwwaaaahhaaahhhaaahhaaa.

2 posted on 03/04/2013 2:39:33 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: lbryce

We understand, and we scoff.

But the typical 20-something knows more about “global warming” than the US Constitution.

That’s why the future of freedom is dim.


3 posted on 03/04/2013 2:42:15 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: lbryce
Real climate change < /s> or "climate change" causing us to burn our food as fuel, thus increasing food prices world wide.
4 posted on 03/04/2013 2:42:27 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: lbryce

7 degrees when I got up at 6 AM this morning. That’s considerably below normal.


5 posted on 03/04/2013 2:45:48 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: lbryce

How in the world does a publication like Scientific American, print this crap?


6 posted on 03/04/2013 2:46:58 PM PST by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: lbryce

7 posted on 03/04/2013 2:48:35 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Paladin2

Ms. Perez isn’t a scientist, she’s a 2012 Columbia Journalism School grad, what 22 or 23 years old...

She has beer-bonged the Gore-ade and is in a tizzy.


8 posted on 03/04/2013 3:00:24 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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9 posted on 03/04/2013 3:05:15 PM PST by 867V309
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To: lbryce

Heh. See the map for our own drought forecast.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/seasonal_drought.html


10 posted on 03/04/2013 3:10:50 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: lbryce

And....Burning food as fuel?

You are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby

Bush 41 signed of on this one.

I hate them all.


11 posted on 03/04/2013 3:23:45 PM PST by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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To: Paladin2

What a load of crap. What about the Seven Years’ War, Thirty Years’ War, War of the Spanish Succession, etc.?
I think the peasants were quite stressed by the Little Ice Age.


12 posted on 03/04/2013 3:33:08 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: lbryce

When I was a teenager interested in science I really enjoyed the articles in Scientific American. But now they’ve drunk the liberal kool-ade and have just become Pseudoscientific Amerikan.


13 posted on 03/04/2013 3:49:09 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Paladin2

Glowball warming...It’s not just a perdikshun anymore


14 posted on 03/04/2013 3:51:53 PM PST by logitech (Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
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To: lbryce

If the leprechauns don’t stop breeding unicorns beneath the surface of the Earth (where it’s “VERY hot”) then the only thing that can save us is giving all of our freedoms and several trillion dollars to the government!

Don’t forget to rid the planet of dangerous dihydrogen monoxide.

Do it for the children!


15 posted on 03/04/2013 4:03:37 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Paladin2

“absolute proven scientific fact”

I thought they generally use “really truly really real” when they argue at that level...


16 posted on 03/04/2013 4:05:02 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: SampleMan

Cool picture of global warming “science”!

All these easily duped econuts should at least take a remedial kindergarten class in science before they use the word.

It reminds me of the Mandy Patinkin character when he said, “You keep using that word I don’t think it means what you think it does”


17 posted on 03/04/2013 4:09:06 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Climate change has had such an affect on the ARAB SPRING we have decided to change the name to ARAB SUMMER. This brainwashed girl is so young and naive she has ZERO perspective regarding the HEAT WAVE, HURRICANE, DROUGHT etc. propaganda the left dishes out and just believes it like the democratic drones.


18 posted on 03/04/2013 4:22:04 PM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: Zeneta
"a publication like Scientific American..."

It's not even American anymore.

19 posted on 03/04/2013 5:49:12 PM PST by Paladin2
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