Who knew? Global Warming causes war too

January 5, 1:56 PMDC Republican ExaminerBill Dupray

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It's true.   You didn't know Global Warming causes war?  It said so right in the Washington Post.

The Cold War shaped world politics for half a century. But global warming may shape the patterns of global conflict for much longer than that -- and help spark clashes that will be, in every sense of the word, hot wars. We're used to thinking of climate change as an environmental problem, not a military one, but it's long past time to alter that mindset. Climate change may mean changes in Western lifestyles, but in some parts of the world, it will mean far more. Living in Washington, I may respond to global warming by buying a Prius, planting a tree or lowering my thermostat. But elsewhere, people will respond to climate change by building bomb shelters and buying guns.

   When it got to 82 degrees, they decided to fight

This simpleton is literally saying that Global Warming will cause major wars.  By this logic, summertime causes war.  It presupposes that people are unable to think clearly when the temperature goes up from 80 to 82 degrees and, in their fevered states, they will start wars.

Here is the first of his three examples of how Global Warming will cause war. 

The first is conflict arising from scarcity. As the world gets hotter and drier, glaciers will melt, and the amount of arable land will shrink. In turn, fresh water, plants, crops and cattle and other domestic animals will be harder to come by, thereby spurring competition and conflict over what's left. In extreme examples, a truly desiccated ecosystem could mean a complete evacuation of a hard-hit region. And the more people move, the more they will jostle with their new neighbors.

So people want to move to nicer climates?  And this is new?  And Global Warming is going to happen so fast that there will be a mass exodus from hot countries to cooler ones?  "Global Warming" must be liberal code words for "Forest Fire."  If the world were getting hotter, which it isn't, it would take a very long time to have any mass effect on people's desire to move.  

This silly theory also discounts that people migrate for many reasons, none of which has anything to do with Global Warming.  Are the Mexicans coming to the United States because Mexico is so damn hot or because we have freedom and opportunity to give them a better life?

Question:  If Global Warming causes war, does Global Cooling cause peace?  If Global Warming will cause trauma, massive population displacement, and battles for resources, would Global Cooling cause harmony and tranquility to reign the world over?  If we do everything these Kool-Aid drinking whack-jobs want us to do to reduce Global Warming, will there be world peace? 

Finally, we should also worry about new conflicts over issues of sovereignty that we didn't need to deal with in our older, colder world. Consider the Northwest Passage, which is turning into an ice-free corridor from Europe to Asia during the summer months. Canada claims some portions of the route as its own sovereign waters, while the United States argues that these sections lie within international waters. Admittedly, it'd take a lot of tension for this to turn into a military conflict, but anyone convinced that the United States and Canada could never come to blows has forgotten the War of 1812. And not all this sort of resource conflict will occur between friendly countries.

Wouldn't Global Cooling be worse?  Wouldn't countries fight more over increasingly frozen sea-lanes, rather than ones that were opening up due to melting ice?  Wouldn't they fight more for shrinking cropland due to creeping Global Cooling?  Wouldn't they fight for natural resources to thaw frozen populations rather than for resources to cool them off?

The world continues its natural cycle of warming and cooling.  That we are in a period of Global Cooling, and people still write articles like this shows how fanatical they are.  Fanatics never let the facts get in the way of their hysterical rants.  And as the laughter directed at them grows, they just yell louder and louder.