Are you suggesting 'Global Warming' is the reason people are choosing to leave he Middle East? I'm not following.
[The} drought — combined with the mismanagement of natural resources by [Syrian President Bashar] Assad, who subsidized water-intensive crops like wheat and cotton farming and promoted bad irrigation techniques — led to significant devastation. According to updated numbers, the drought displaced 1.5 million people within Syria..........a massive internal migration was happening, mainly on the periphery, from farmers and herders who had lost their livelihoods completely. Around 75 percent of farmers suffered total crop failure, so they moved into the cities. Farmers in the northeast lost 80 percent of their livestock, so they had to leave and find livelihoods elsewhere. They all moved into urban areas — urban areas that were already experiencing economic insecurity due to an influx of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees. But this massive displacement mostly wasn't reported. So it wasn't factoring into various security analyses.
Drought helped cause Syria’s war. Will climate change bring more like it?
Even as Europe wrestles over how to absorb the migrant tide, experts warn that the flood is likely to get worse as climate change becomes a driving factor.
How Climate Change is Behind the Surge of Migrants to Europe
Drawing one of the strongest links yet between
global warming and human conflict, researchers said Monday that an extreme drought in
Syria between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due to
climate change, and that the drought was a factor in the violent uprising that began there in 2011.
The drought was the worst in the country in modern times, and in a
study published Monday in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists laid the blame for it on a century-long trend toward warmer and drier conditions in the Eastern Mediterranean, rather than on natural climate variability...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/s...o-drought-caused-by-climate-change.html?_r=0#