Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley told Bloomberg News over the weekend that climate change is responsible for the rise of ISIS.  This is a significant flip-flop for the former Maryland governor, who earlier tried to separate global warming from national security. But that bandwagon is leaving the station, and O'Malley figured it was time to jump aboard. "One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation-state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,” O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, told Bloomberg news in a question about foreign policy. O’Malley’s comments echo those of the Obama...(Read Full Post)