Re:Global warming has accelerated significantly
by gzread on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:56AM
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Not necessarily. Climate change means there will be more droughts; and if droughts cause civil war, there will be more civil war (that's the GP's relevance); even if we can't tell which ones were caused by global warming, that's still bad.
Re:Global warming has accelerated significantly
by morkalork on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:16PM
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Oh no, on the contrary, I'm saying it's already started and people aren't paying attention.
Re:Global warming has accelerated significantly
by parineum on Saturday March 07, 2026 @11:06AM
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> Wasn't a drought originally part of the cause of Syria's collapse into civil war? Climate change is already causing unrest...
You're drawing (or seem to be) a causal link from climate change to this specific drought/war.
Climate change is a statistical anomaly that cannot be seen in individual events.
One local drought can't be attributed to or be proof of global warming.
It's like smoking causing lung cancer; (the following numbers are made up) 5 in 100 non-smokers might get lung cancer but 20 in 100 smokers do. 5 of those smokers would have gotten lung cancer anyway and 15 wouldn't have but there's no way to know which individuals are in which cohort.