Apparently the warming is going to give us bad tempers [0] ...
"In an authoritative report due out Monday a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees ... retired U.S. Navy Adm. David Titley, now a Pennsylvania State University professor of meteorology, wrote in an email. “The Arab Spring and Syria are two recent examples.”
They sully the real science with this kind of nonsense.
The webpage you cite does not support your argument that Climate Change caused the Egyptian population to rise up against their oppressive/corrupt dictatorship. It simply states that Russia had fires destroying wheat and Egypt was an importer.
Food price inflation[0] is cited by Wikipedia as one of the causes (with just a single link). There are pages and pages of other much more important reasons[1]
Food price inflation is not necessarily connected to Global Warming/Climate Change.
The 2007/2008 World Food Crisis, which caused violence in Egypt[2], significantly raised food prices (which stayed high after the rapid rise). A major cause, according to the World Bank, was biofuels [2] which raised food prices by up to 75%.
Its easy to claim that X was the spark that made Y happen. All you need to show that X had some minuscule effect and people will readily agree, ignoring the big picture.
Take it as you will. Whether it's fair to say "Climate Change caused Egypt's revolution," I don't know. But if you accept that Climate Change can destabilize the food supply, and that a destabilized food supply caused the revolution, then the quote claim is not really nonsensical.
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Apparently the warming is going to give us bad tempers [0] ...
"In an authoritative report due out Monday a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees ... retired U.S. Navy Adm. David Titley, now a Pennsylvania State University professor of meteorology, wrote in an email. “The Arab Spring and Syria are two recent examples.”
They sully the real science with this kind of nonsense.
[0] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/warmer-temperature...
Actually, no. One of the big events leading up to Egypt's revolution was a grain shortage brought on by a heat wave and bout of fires in Russia [1].
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08...
The webpage you cite does not support your argument that Climate Change caused the Egyptian population to rise up against their oppressive/corrupt dictatorship. It simply states that Russia had fires destroying wheat and Egypt was an importer.
Food price inflation[0] is cited by Wikipedia as one of the causes (with just a single link). There are pages and pages of other much more important reasons[1]
Food price inflation is not necessarily connected to Global Warming/Climate Change.
The 2007/2008 World Food Crisis, which caused violence in Egypt[2], significantly raised food prices (which stayed high after the rapid rise). A major cause, according to the World Bank, was biofuels [2] which raised food prices by up to 75%.
Its easy to claim that X was the spark that made Y happen. All you need to show that X had some minuscule effect and people will readily agree, ignoring the big picture.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011#cit... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011#cit... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_pr... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_pr...
Take it as you will. Whether it's fair to say "Climate Change caused Egypt's revolution," I don't know. But if you accept that Climate Change can destabilize the food supply, and that a destabilized food supply caused the revolution, then the quote claim is not really nonsensical.
And don't get me started on biofuels!