This is why Obama was so reluctant to attack ISIS.
Posted on 10/07/2015 7:28:36 AM PDT by McGruff
Last month, a thick yellow cloud of dust blanketed parts of the Middle East and extended all the way to Cyprus. Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees were forced to scurry for shelter from the choking plume, while Israelis were instructed to stay indoors and ports in Egypt were shut. Health officials in Damascus, the Syrian capital, said more than 1,200 people, including 100 children, were hospitalized with breathing difficulties; in Lebanon, two women died as a result of the dust storm.
It was an unusual, unseasonal event, as my colleague Hugh Naylor reported. And, according to a team of Israeli scientists, it may have been the consequence of extreme, man-made conditions in Syria and Iraq right now
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This is why Obama was so reluctant to attack ISIS.
Is this a global dusting ping item? Maybe that should or will be the next menace to humanity.
“Scientists say” eh?
Heh.
“from Syria, as far as Cyprus”? Wow, that must be like 80 miles.
Harvard trained( not educated) Scientists
Lotta drought going on in the ME, especially Iran.
After all the junk science (Climate “science”, Globull Warming “science”, Disruptification “science”)we've heard over the last couple decades, “Scientists say” is the equivalent to “Snake Oil salesmen in Gypsy wagons say”.
Now we know that GLOBAL WARMING DID IT!
All the shuffling on feet heading towards Europe kicking up dust
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