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Climate change helped cause Brexit

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[FONT=&quot]Brexit was caused in part by climate change, former US Vice-President Al Gore has said, warning that extreme weather is creating political instability “the world will find extremely difficult to deal with”.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Mr Gore, speaking at an event in which he previewed a sequel to his landmark 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, said the “principal” cause of the Syrian Civil War had been the worst drought in 900 years, which forced 1.5 million people to move from the countryside to the cities.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]There they met a similar number of Iraqis who had fled the conflict in their homeland, creating powder keg conditions that Syrian government officials privately feared would explode.[/FONT]
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Climate change helped cause Brexit, says Al Gore | The Independent

I think we should blame climate, changing for algore.
 
[h=2]Climate caused Brexit sayth the Gore[/h]
Righto. It’s time to blame climate change for causing British voters to vote against German rule of Britain. Back when the climate was ideal, the Brits would’ve been fine with that.
Instead, even though the world has not warmed for 80% of the history of the EU, the EU is breaking up because of climate change.
It’s not like Al Gore to draw conclusions from a long nebulous chain of dubious reasoning, but here’s how it goes: Coal gives off CO2, which causes droughts according to models that don’t work, and that made Syrians migrate. Everyone got unhappy and voted for Brexit.
[h=4]Climate change helped cause Brexit, says Al Gore[/h]Brexit was caused in part by climate change, former US Vice-President Al Gore has said, warning that extreme weather is creating political instability “the world will find extremely difficult to deal with”.
Really, it’s all about coal, cars and plastic bags. If the EU had only put in more wind farms, the UK would have voted to stay in.
If it weren’t for a lack of rain in the middle east, the British Isles would want to leave decisions about immigration, fishing and light bulbs to their friends in Europe. What were they thinking when they voted to save billions and make those choices for themselves?
Mr Gore, speaking at an event in which he previewed a sequel to his landmark 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, said the “principal” cause of the Syrian Civil War had been the worst drought in 900 years, which forced 1.5 million people to move from the countryside to the cities. There they met a similar number of Iraqis who had fled the conflict in their homeland, creating powder keg conditions that Syrian government officials privately feared would explode.
Let’s not forget that for the last thousand years when the weather was preindustrially perfect, the French, Germans and Spanish got along super well with the Brits. It’s not like there was ten centuries of warfare until the climate warmed and peace ripped across the land. (Climate change also causes peace in Europe. How bad can it get?).
Gore’s evidence amounts to saying that there was a bad drought in this multivariate intercontinental geopolitical mess, plus Wikileaks shows someone in Syria saying “there is going to be a social explosion” just before there was one. Well, that does it for me…
 
The UK climate has been exceptionally like it always has been, although vaguely mild for the last few decades....
 
Tim the plumber said:
The UK climate has been exceptionally like it always has been, although vaguely mild for the last few decades....
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The nature of the observed warming, has mostly been warmer evenings in the cooler months.
It is the daily lows not going as low, that is bringing up the average temperature.
 
Renae said:
Wait, are you saying you agree with the high priest of climate changing denial?
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I'm saying some people have a hard time with nuance, complex interactions between events, and causality.

Sometimes, they demonstrate it regularly.
 
Threegoofs said:
I'm saying some people have a hard time with nuance, complex interactions between events, and causality.

Sometimes, they demonstrate it regularly.
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So you do agree with the guy that denies that climate, changes. Are you with Shaq too?
 
So, people don't think the Syrian refugee situation contributed to Brexit?

Because I wouldn't agree.
 
Deuce said:
So, people don't think the Syrian refugee situation contributed to Brexit?

Because I wouldn't agree.
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The Syrian refugee crsis following the civil war which started due to a spike in world food prices due to the use of food as fuel?
 
Tim the plumber said:
The Syrian refugee crsis following the civil war which started due to a spike in world food prices due to the use of food as fuel?
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Infinity people per second are killed by this silly claim you keep making.

Jack Hays said:
So what?
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What do you mean so what? It's the subject of this thread. People are snorting at Al Gore's statement about the Syrian refugee situation contributing to Brexit.

Oh **** you didn't read the article did you.
 
Deuce said:
Infinity people per second are killed by this silly claim you keep making.



What do you mean so what? It's the subject of this thread. People are snorting at Al Gore's statement about the Syrian refugee situation contributing to Brexit.

Oh **** you didn't read the article did you.
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Gore's claim is too ludicrous to waste time on.
 
Jack Hays said:
Gore's claim is too ludicrous to waste time on.
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You are clearly not even aware of what his claim is. Your "so what" comment shows this.

You chose to just read the headline. Nobody is shocked.
 
Deuce said:
So, people don't think the Syrian refugee situation contributed to Brexit?

Because I wouldn't agree.
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Not in the slightest. It was the flood of millions of eastern Europeans that did that. Brexit won't stop the Syrian refugees after all
 
flogger said:
Not in the slightest. It was the flood of millions of eastern Europeans that did that. Brexit won't stop the Syrian refugees after all
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Right, because the Leave campaigns excluded Syrians from their massive anti-immigrant campaigns.
 
Deuce said:
You are clearly not even aware of what his claim is. Your "so what" comment shows this.

You chose to just read the headline. Nobody is shocked.
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The attempt to link Syria to climate change was laughed out of the discussion long ago.
 
Deuce said:
Right, because the Leave campaigns excluded Syrians from their massive anti-immigrant campaigns.
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Well I do live here and am pretty well aware of what motivated the Brexiteers
 
Jack Hays said:
The attempt to link Syria to climate change was laughed out of the discussion long ago.
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Your dismissal of all things climate change was laughed out of the discussion long ago.
 
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