The Middle East Was Stable Before The Invention Of The SUV | Real Science

“Climate change is leading to other crises, such as the Arab Spring.”

“Somalia and the Arab Spring are examples of our problems,” Parenti said. “It will be interesting to see what effect the drought in the United States will have on grain prices internationally and what it will do politically.

Greens go mad: Stopping coal to China will stop Somalis starving | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Greens Senator Lee Rhianon thinks the way to stop starvation in Somalia is to stop Australian coal exports to China

Worldwide CO2 emissions and the futility of any action in the West | Watts Up With That?

So the whole warmist idea is a creature of a limited number of developed western nations whose governments have been persuaded by the control Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Disruption agenda.

- Bishop Hill blog - Green spouts on drought

As we can see, Mr Green skirts over all the uncertainties in the IPCC storylines and portrays no sense of just how tentative the conclusions about extreme weather events are. This is par for the course for political campaigners, I suppose.

The models also suggest that rainfall will increase in a warming world. This being the case, one should presumably conclude that drought is not an issue we should worry about. This is, however, another issue that Mr Green chooses not to discuss.

Concentrated solar power plants are all wet | Grist

Concentrating solar has promised big additions to renewable energy production with the additional benefit of energy storage -- saving sun power for nighttime -- but there's a catch. Most of the new power plants are big water users despite being planned for desert locations.

Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Peak electricity demand in the UK (and presumably in other northern European nations) takes place at 5-7pm on a winter's evening, when solar panels are producing nothing. Peak solar output takes place in the middle of hot summer days, when demand is much lower. Solar electricity in a cold, high-latitude country displaces none of the coal and gas plants currently producing electricity on winter evenings. The money being spent on it is largely wasted.