According to Nafeez Ahmed at the Guardian, "the age of climate warfare is here. The military-industrial complex is ready. Are you?" Ah yes, the climate wars are upon us. Ahmed refers to a new research paper by Peter Gleick which "demonstrates clearly that the Syrian conflict is not just a climate war, or a resource war, but a water war. Between 2006 and 2011, the country suffered the worst long-term drought and the most severe set of crop failures in recorded history." Wait a minute. Syria suffered "the most severe set of crop failures in recorded history" during the period between 2006 and 2011? According to the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service report on Syria in May 2010, "Syria appears poised to produce a record winter grain harvest in 2010/11. Above normal rainfall over the bulk of the winter growing season, as well as warmer than normal temperatures, provided generally ideal grain growing conditions." The USDA report...(Read Full Post)