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Nasty drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran wouldn't have happened without climate change, study finds
ABC News / Disney ^ | November 8, 2023 | BySETH BORENSTEIN AP science writer

Posted on 11/09/2023 8:06:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change, a new study found.

The west Asian drought, which started in July 2020, is mostly because hotter-than-normal temperatures are evaporating the little rainfall that fell, according to a flash study Wednesday by a team of international climate scientists at World Weather Attribution.

It’s a case of climate change unnaturally intensifying naturally dry conditions into a humanitarian crisis that has left people thirsty, hungry and displaced, concluded the research, which has not yet undergone peer review but follows scientifically valid techniques to look for the fingerprints of global warming.

The team looked at temperatures, rainfall and moisture levels and compared what happened in the last three years to multiple computer simulations of the conditions in a world without human-caused climate change.

“Human-caused global climate change is already making life considerably harder for tens of millions of people in West Asia,” said study co-author Mohammed Rahimi, a professor of climatology at Semnan University in Iran. “With every degree of warming Syria, Iraq and Iran will become even harder places to live.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Iran; Iraq; Lebanon; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Syria
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; iran; iraq; lebanon; panicporn; propaganda; socialism; syria
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1 posted on 11/09/2023 8:06:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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2 posted on 11/09/2023 8:08:04 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Video
1983. NBC News warns of Catastrophe climate change by the 1990’s
https://rumble.com/v3sxocp-1983.-nbc-news-warns-of-catastrophe-climate-change-by-the-1990s.html


3 posted on 11/09/2023 8:09:08 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Last I heard, droughts were a sign of a cooling climate. A long time ago, the Sahara was quite green. That was when the world was hotter. Since we are still in an Ice Age, a lot of water is locked in ice at the poles. Which is why we have more droughts.


4 posted on 11/09/2023 8:09:55 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ABC News / Disney are stuck in Never-Never Land.


5 posted on 11/09/2023 8:10:01 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And just who is World Weather Attribution who produces such propaganda???


6 posted on 11/09/2023 8:11:07 AM PST by elpadre
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Damn it, Jim, It’s a desert, not a rainforest”


7 posted on 11/09/2023 8:12:28 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone who signed on to this “study” should be ostracized and banned from research.


8 posted on 11/09/2023 8:13:00 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Elijah would not agree...............


9 posted on 11/09/2023 8:14:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Disney doesn’t need to look very hard to see why they are failing and swirling the bowl...


10 posted on 11/09/2023 8:16:07 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dizzknee snooze outlet. 🖕. Climate emergency is as real as being able to change your gender. So, there is that.

🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱👍


11 posted on 11/09/2023 8:16:59 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There has never been a desert there before.


12 posted on 11/09/2023 8:19:02 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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Bwahahahaha. So, the study found out that it’s dry in the desert. Bwahahahaha.


13 posted on 11/09/2023 8:19:50 AM PST by salmon76 (…"we have obtained dirt on Hillary Cli…" (Babylon Bee))
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...wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change...

Prove it is caused by people!

They cannot. It is well documented that overall recorded temperatures have gone up 1.5 degrees C over 140 years or so, but the cause has not been proven at all.

This is not catastrophic and has happened many times throughout recorded history and prehistory as proved in scientific methods (tree rings, ice core samples, etc).

Moreover, well calibrated and accurate thermometers are a very recent thing.

I'm not sick of science. I'm very sick of nonsense being misinterpreted as science!

14 posted on 11/09/2023 8:20:32 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Red Badger

Neither would Ezekiel…


15 posted on 11/09/2023 8:20:37 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Are we supposed to be ignorant that western Asia has been among the biggest producers of oil and natural gas?

Why didn’t they invest some of their fossil fuel profits in water management systems, to include desalinization?

Funny, isn’t it, that drought hit these Arab nations, but not Israel? Those Jews, they get all the breaks.

Why is it that Israel with no oil or natural gas until the recent discoveries in the eastern Med, has invested in water management systems, and not the Arabs?

Now the Jews have water AND profits from fossil fuel. You can see why they’re hated so much.

It’s like Rula Lenska. Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.


16 posted on 11/09/2023 8:21:09 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Climate change and illegal immigration. There will be multiple serious terrorist attacks in the US before either of Obama’s waterfront mansions are flooded.


17 posted on 11/09/2023 8:21:38 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Sahara used to be green, and then it wasn’t.


18 posted on 11/09/2023 8:22:00 AM PST by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/08/16/treasury-department-sanctions-hezbollah-green-front-group/


19 posted on 11/09/2023 8:22:25 AM PST by Irenic
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Maybe, just maybe, if the koranimals would quit using goats to eat every plant down to the bare ground all over North Africa and the Middle East they might not live in a sandbox.

They chose sex with goats over a decent place to live.


20 posted on 11/09/2023 8:24:32 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (With the Federal DOJ illegally hounding President Trump he has become the 1st true black president)
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