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To: Brumar89 who wrote (51063)	5/10/2014 8:54:55 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

"you think the feds thought your wife was the dangerous one." They did at one point in our lives.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (51063)	5/11/2014 11:51:27 AM
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WOW! Crackpots at The Guardian Blame Global Warming for Rise of Boko Haram Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 11, 2014, 8:58 AM Boko Haram stands for the Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad. The organization’s stated purpose is to establish a “pure” Islamic state ruled by sharia. Wow! This is just so crazy! The Guardian blamed global warming – not Islam – for the rise of the Nigerian Islamist terror group Boko Haram. The Guardian reported: The kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls, and the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamboru Ngala, by the militant al-Qaeda affiliated group, Boko Haram, has shocked the world. But while condemnations have rightly been forthcoming from a whole range of senior figures from celebrities to government officials, less attention has been paid to the roots of the crisis. Instability in Nigeria, however, has been growing steadily over the last decade – and one reason is climate change. In 2009, a UK Department for International Development (Dfid) study warned that climate change could contribute to increasing resource shortages in the country due to land scarcity from desertification, water shortages, and mounting crop failures. A more recent study by the Congressionally-funded US Institute for Peace confirmeda “basic causal mechanism” that “links climate change with violence in Nigeria.”The report concludes: “…poor responses to climatic shifts create shortages of resources such as land and water. Shortages are followed by negative secondary impacts, such as more sickness, hunger, and joblessness. Poor responses to these, in turn, open the door to conflict.” Unfortunately, a business-as-usual scenario sees Nigeria’s climate undergoing “growing shifts in temperature, rainfall, storms, and sea levels throughout the twenty-first century. Poor adaptive responses to these shifts could help fuel violent conflict in some areas of the country.” This is just more proof that you really have to live in some kind of fantasy world to belong to the progressive movement today.