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How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban
Cbsnews ^ | 08/20/2021 | Cara Korte

Posted on 08/20/2021 4:02:59 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change. The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry. And the Taliban — likely without knowing climate change was the cause — has taken advantage of that pain.

While agriculture is a source of income for more than 60% of Afghans, more than 80% of conflicts in the country are linked to natural resources, according to a joint study by the World Food Programme, the United Nations Environment Program and Afghanistan's National Environmental Protection Agency. In 2019, Afghanistan ranked sixth in the world for countries most impacted by climate change, according to the Germanwatch Global Climate Risk Index.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; california; carakorte; cbs; change; climate; fakescience; gestapogreta; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; horsemanure; mediawingofthednc; nancypelosi; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; seebs; taliban; waronterror
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Right. It wasn’t Biden’s fault, it was Trump who wouldn’t pay more taxpayer money for “global warming”.


41 posted on 08/20/2021 6:08:26 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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42 posted on 08/20/2021 6:11:16 PM PDT by xp38
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This has to be from The Onion? Right?


43 posted on 08/20/2021 6:41:52 PM PDT by bort
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To: ChicagoConservative27

floods and drought
wet and dry
cold and hot
windy and calm
sunny and cloudy

At the foot of the Himalayas.

Sure signs of GlobalClimateWarmingChange.

Runnnnnnnnn for your lives!!!


44 posted on 08/20/2021 7:51:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: Tell It Right
I've been looking all over this chart and I just can't find this Current Warm Trend.


45 posted on 08/20/2021 7:58:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban”

I KNEW it! the chaos in afganistan had nothing at all to do with a senile President after all! thank you, CBS News for clearing this up!


46 posted on 08/20/2021 9:09:54 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: TigersEye

In that chart it’s the part labeled “Present Global Warming”.


47 posted on 08/22/2021 7:36:32 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Ah, yes, the part that the text below it calls “almost non-measurable.”


48 posted on 08/22/2021 12:06:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: TigersEye

Exactly. Before the 1990’s injected politics into global warming, the few people who talked about climate science and cooling and warming trends all agreed that the Current Warming Trend is nothing like the Medieval Warm Period or the Roman Warm Period. We’d be lucky if we got that warm again. Those were times of much better crop yields, easier to predict rain patterns, and less plagues. We should be glad we’ve spent the past century and a half coming out of the Little Ice Age.


49 posted on 08/22/2021 5:48:24 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Mr. K

LOL! My itchy skin went away and my face cleared up! Thanks climate change!


50 posted on 08/22/2021 8:41:31 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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