Al Gore: Global Warming a ‘Principal’ Cause of the Syrian Civil War, Brexit

Al Gore: Global Warming a ‘Principal’ Cause of the Syrian Civil War, Brexit

by Pam Key 23 Mar 2017

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/23/al-gore-global-warming-principal-cause-syrian-civil-war-brexit/

Thursday in London at Advertising Week Europe 2017 during an interview with Empire Editor-in-Chief Terri White, former Vice-President Al Gore said climate change was a “principal” cause of the Syrian Civil War and Brexit.

Gore said, “I was just in the Persian Gulf region and the scientists for the lat couple of years, one of the lines of investigation they have been pursuing has led them to the conclusion that significant areas of the Middle East and North Africa are in danger of becoming uninhabitable. And, just a taste of this, to link it to some of the events that the UK and the European Union are going through and I know that’s another source of stress because we are now on the eve next week of the Brexit process – but think for a moment about what happened in Syria. You know we look at the gates of hell opening, they long since have opened, but before the gates of hell opened in Syria, what happened was a climate-related extreme drought.”

“The scientists have published these peer review studies for several years now showing exactly why it’s related to the climate crisis. From 2006 to 2010, 60 percent of the farms in Syria were destroyed and had to be abandoned and 80 per cent of the livestock were killed. The drought in the eastern Mediterranean is the worst ever on record – the records only go back 900 years, but it’s historic. And 1.5 million climate refugees were driven into the cities in Syria, where they collided with refugees from the Iraq War. And Wikileaks revealed the internal conversations in the Syrian government where they were saying to one another ‘we can’t handle this, there’s going to be a social explosion’. There are other causes of the Syrian civil war, but this was the principal one. And those in the region recognize that. And it has unleashed, with other factors an incredible flow of refugees into Europe which is creating political instability in Europe and which contributed in some ways to the desire of some in the UK to say ‘Whoa we’re not sure we want to be a part of that anymore.’ And you can go through the list of countries around the worlds where stability and political success of governance is really challenged. Some countries have a hard time even in the best of seasons but the additional stress this climate crisis is causing really poses the threat of some political disruption and chaos of a kind the world would find extremely difficult to deal with.”

Syria

Bashar al-Assad is the president of Syria, supporting the Syrian Electronic Army (a hacker group), and permitted rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Syria.

Note: Syrian Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Human Rights Watch.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, and the Center for American Progress.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the   

Human Rights Watch, and a supporter for the Center for American Progress.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, the Center for American Progress, the Climate Reality Project, the People for the American Way, and the Sundance Institute.

Carol M. Browner is a director at the Center for American Progress, was the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration, a director at the Climate Reality Project, and an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Albert A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate Reality Project, and was a donor for The Climate Project.

The Climate Project was a merged organization with the Climate Reality Project.

Norman Lear was a donor for The Climate Project, is a director at the People for the American Way, and married to Lyn Davis Lear.

Margery Tabankin is a director at the People for the American Way, and the treasurer for the Barbra Streisand Foundation.

Barbra Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.

Syrian Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Human Rights Watch.

Bashar al-Assad is supporting the Syrian Electronic Army (a hacker group), the president of Syria, and permitted rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Syria.

Patricia E. Mitchell was a director at the Human Rights Watch, and is the vice chair for the Sundance Institute.

Lyn Davis Lear is a trustee at the Sundance Institute, married to Norman Lear, and a trustee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Cindy Harrell-Horn is a trustee at the Sundance Institute, and a director at the Climate Reality Project.

Albert A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate Reality Project, and was a donor for The Climate Project.

The Climate Project was a merged organization with the Climate Reality Project.

Norman Lear was a donor for The Climate Project, is a director at the People for the American Way, married to Lyn Davis Lear, and the president of the Lear Family Foundation.

Margery Tabankin is a director at the People for the American Way, and the treasurer for the Barbra Streisand Foundation.

Barbra Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.

Syrian Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Human Rights Watch.

Barbra Streisand is the founder of the Barbra Streisand Foundation, and was a trustee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Lyn Davis Lear is a trustee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a trustee at the Sundance Institute, married to Norman Lear, and a director at the Lear Family Foundation.

Lear Family Foundation was a funder for the People for the American Way, and a donor for the Movement Resource Group.

Movement Resource Group was a funder for the Occupy Movement.

Occupy Wall Street was the initial protest for the Occupy Movement.

Pete Seeger marched with Occupy Wall Street, and worked to clean up the pollution in the Hudson River.

How is the Hudson Doing?

http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/77105.html

Toxic Leftovers

While discharges have been reduced, a legacy of past pollution remains in river sediments. Most infamous are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mainly from General Electric plants in Washington County. Moving through food chains, these toxic chemicals become concentrated in fish. Swallowing a few mouthfuls of river water does not significantly expose a person to these pollutants, but regularly eating fish may. For much of the Hudson, New York State's Health Department recommends that children and women of child-bearing age eat no fish and advises other people to limit their fish consumption.

Levels of PCBs have declined since discharges ceased in 1977, but concentrations in fish, birds and mammals remain high enough to affect survival, growth and reproduction. The risks to wildlife and people who eat contaminated fish led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to require a cleanup in the Hudson north of Troy; it began in 2009.

Large amounts of PCBs and other persistent contaminants end up in New York Harbor. The operation of the Port of New York and New Jersey, which generates billions of dollars of economic activity and supports more than 228,900 jobs, requires dredging to deepen channels and berths. Dredging and disposal of contaminated mud is very costly.

Risa Stack is the general manager, GE Ventures for the General Electric Company, and was a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was a donor for The Climate Project.

The Climate Project was a merged organization with the Climate Reality Project.

Albert A. Gore Jr. was a donor for The Climate Project, is the chairman for the Climate Reality Project, and a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Norman Lear was a donor for The Climate Project, is a director at the People for the American Way, married to Lyn Davis Lear, and the president of the Lear Family Foundation.

Margery Tabankin is a director at the People for the American Way, and the treasurer for the Barbra Streisand Foundation.

Barbra Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.

Syrian Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Human Rights Watch.

Bashar al-Assad is supporting the Syrian Electronic Army (a hacker group), the president of Syria, and permitted rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Syria.