Climate change root cause of Syrian war: Britain's Prince Charles

Reuters ^ | 11/23/2015 | Michael Holden

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

Britain's Prince Charles has pointed to the world's failure to tackle climate change as a root cause of the civil war in Syria, terrorism and the consequent refugee crisis engulfing Europe.

The heir to the British throne is due to give a keynote speech at the opening of a global climate summit in Paris next week where 118 leaders will gather to try to nail down a deal to limit rising greenhouse gas emissions.

"Some of us were saying 20 something years ago that if we didn't tackle these issues, you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought, and the accumulating effect of climate change which means that people have to move," he said.

"And in fact there's very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough, was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land but increasingly they came into the cities."

[SaveFerris]

I can’t believe anyone follows these morons. Who listened to Marie Harf and thought she was right that ISIS just needed jobs? You know some were out there nodding their heads in agreement.

[Caipirabob]

"You tell 'em, chuckie!"

[Chode]

a real gay-blade that one

[Chode]

that family needs to give their DNA a chance to breath

may the Queen outlive the POS

[SaveFerris]

They’re probably as inbred as Saddam’s family was. Time magazine (waaaaaay back) had quite the diagram of Saddam’s family. Yikes.

[Chode]

i bet!

[SaveFerris]

There were several loops right back into the fray.

[reg45]

Florence of Arabia!

[Regulator]

Nah.

That was Mother.