Bill Nye, who advertises himself as the "science guy," just announced why he thinks that President Obama's claim that ISIS arose because of climate change is true.
The short course:
- Drought in Syria has shut down farming as viable to make a living
- Young men moved from farms to cities
- There is not enough work there for them
- They become "disaffected"
- ISIS recruits them and "they wind up in Paris shooting people."
Here are three graphics for you. The graphs are lifted directly from The World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal. They present average monthly rainfall in Syria by tri-decades: 1900-1930; 1930-1960; 1960-1990; 1990-2012.
In this slide, the periods are not in order and dates are blacked out. Can you place them in correct order without paging down?
Here it is with dates uncovered:
Here they are in chronological order. Do you see a drought problem here?
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