Debt Rattle March 3 2015

 

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    #19592
    Nassim
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    “Climate change was a key driver of the Syrian uprising”
    Funny how the article fails to mention that the Turks dammed the rivers supplying both Syria and Iraq. It must be an oversight.

    “Water Wars directed against Syria and Iraq: Turkey’s Control of the Euphrates River”

    Water Wars directed against Syria and Iraq: Turkey’s Control of the Euphrates River

    I can only conclude that it is yet another propaganda piece.

    #19609
    Dr. Diablo
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    More false accuracy in science. There are 101, or 1,001 factors that lead to war–the foreign injection of arms and money for opposition might be more of a root cause than the weather, for example. So how can you tell how much effect such a thing would have, and whether that effect has any threshold relevance? And that’s agreeing that climate change does and would have large-scale effects on war and migration. You could as well say that the recent appearance of girl scout cookie sales has had this effect. Really? They are coincident factors. How do you measure? How do you quantify? How do you prove? How do you disprove the recent appearance of hula-hoops was not the factor instead?

    If anyone was using actual science here, they would know the article’s hypothesis mirrors the science of chaos theory, where things may SEEM cohesive, only to find that, in a complex equation with many, many factors, a small alteration of one factor can sometimes have a revolutionary effect, whereas the large alteration of a large factor sometimes has only a small effect. And worse–sometimes, but not always. That’s why they call it “chaos” theory, although it might be better named “things that are still far too complex to model with our puny tools” theory.

    Someday we may be able to accurately model these things and know for certain. Today is not that day.

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