Lest you think the bloodshed in Syria has everything to do with sectarian violence, the mainstream media is advocating another theory. According to the Associated Press, “The conflict that has torn Syria apart can be traced, in part, to a record drought worsened by global warming, a new study says. In what scientists say is one of the most detailed and strongest connections between violence and human-caused climate change, researchers from Columbia University and the University of California Santa Barbara trace the effects of Syria’s drought from the collapse of farming, to the migration of 1.5 million farmers to the cities, and then to poverty and civil unrest. Syria’s drought started in 2007 and continued until at least 2010 – and perhaps longer.” The ridiculous theory linking global warming to global violence has been floating around for some time, but researcher Richard Seager, the AP added, claims the Syrian revolt “is the ‘single clearest case’ ever presented by scientists of climate change playing a part in conflict because ‘you can really draw a blow-by-blow account with the numbers.’” If that’s the case, why isn’t Syria taking the war to capitalists, the supposed instigators of all the world’s horrors? And here we thought all Islamic nations needed were more jobs. More…