Posted on 09/23/2021 6:09:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Using apocalyptic images, three presidents and seven foreign ministers warned Thursday that a warmer world is also a more violent one.
At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the U.N.’s most powerful body to do more to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all U.N. peacekeeping operations.
The leaders and ministers pushing for more U.N. action said warming is making the world less safe, pointing to Africa’s conflict-plagued Sahel region and Syria and Iraq as examples..
Micheal Martin, Ireland’s president, who chaired the meeting, said climate change “is already contributing to conflict in many parts of the world.” And Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said climate change “is a war without gunfire so to speak that causes economic damage and losses in lives no less dire than actual wars.”
“The effects of climate change are particularly profound when they overlap with fragility and past or current conflicts,” said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “And when natural resources like water become scarce because of climate change, “grievances and tensions can explode, complicating efforts to prevent conflict and sustain peace.”
“Our lives and daily realities are at the nexus of climate change insecurity,” said Ilwad Elman, a Somali-Canadian peace activist. “The impact of climate change and environmental degradation are also changing what it takes to build peace ... because we are experiencing climate-related shocks and stresses.”
For years, academics who study conflict and climate change have been highlighting how events like a once-in-a-millennium Syrian drought have exacerbated conflicts without being the sole causes. It’s a more nuanced approach to understanding conflict — and to developing tools that reduce its impact on societies.
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I was initially worried but then I saw the United Nations was involved and my worries vanished just like that! / sarcasm
Yep, Orlando’s warmer than Chicago - so we have more crime...
“El Niño can affect our weather significantly. The warmer waters cause the Pacific jet stream to move south of its neutral position. With this shift, areas in the northern U.S. and Canada are dryer and warmer than usual. But in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Southeast, these periods are wetter than usual and have increased flooding.”
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ninonina.html
“During a La Niña year, winter temperatures are warmer than normal in the South and cooler than normal in the North. La Niña can also lead to a more severe hurricane season.”
Ever notice how often Third World slums lack tree cover?
If you take a graph of the world's warming cooling cycles you will see violence goes up when it gets cold. And it drops when it is in a warm cycle.
The Sahel is getting wetter and greener.
“Tropical rainforests are lush and warm all year long! Temperatures don’t even change much between night and day. The average temperature in tropical rainforests ranges from 70 to 85°F (21 to 30°C).”
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/rainforest.html
I didn’t cut down your rainforest.
Yeah, a one degree rise in a century makes people go ape*hit.....not.
WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!
However, it’s a dry warm!
“Well, what would a colder world mean?”
Absolutely, The little ice was insane, literally... Egotism was rampant.
Just using where violence is on the rise in one part of the world, and that is Africa, and in most cases what is the lead cause in that rise? It’s violent Islamist groups. And that has what to do with a “warmer world”? Zero, zip, zilch.
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