Michael Bastasch on October 31, 2018
- Several media outlets have published stories linking the migrant caravan to global warming.
- Reports cite experts claiming “changing climate is forcing farmers off their land.”
- “It’s a future that’s rapidly arriving,” one expert warned without evidence.
Media outlets want you to know the Central American migrant caravan heading to the U.S.-Mexico border isn’t just about fleeing poverty and violence, it’s also about global warming.
The Guardian cited “experts” who “say the big picture is that changing climate is forcing farmers off their land – and it’s likely to get worse.” The Huffington Post said the migrant caravan “foreshadows” what’s to come with global warming.
Likewise, E&E News called the caravan a “preview of climate migrations” — that is people driven from their homes due to man-made global warming.
Thousands of migrants from Central American countries, such as Honduras and Guatemala, are making their way through Mexico to the U.S. border to declare asylum. Many of the migrants recounted horrific stories of organized crime, extreme poverty and lack of opportunity.
However, those in the media looking for a global warming angle to the story found experts who say the migrant caravan are a preview of the waves of “climate refugees” that will come with more global warming.
“It’s a future that’s rapidly arriving,” Frank Femia, co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security, told E&E News. Femia is also a major proponent of the theory that global warming helped spark the Syrian civil war. Proponents argue a global warming exacerbated a multi-year drought that sparked for the Arab Spring uprising in 2011, which eventually led to civil war.
It’s part of a larger theory that global warming can lead to violent conflict in vulnerable areas of the world. The Obama administration Defense Department even considered global warming a “threat multiplier.”
Conflict scholars have largely debunked many of the claims linking global warming to armed conflict and migration, but the media is trying to continue the narrative by linking global warming to Central American migrations.
For example, The Guardian reported that “climate change in the region is exacerbating – and sometimes causing – a miasma of other problems including crop failures and poverty.”
“And they warn that in the coming decades, it is likely to push millions more people north towards the US,” the paper reported.
Like in Syria, supposed experts are pointing Central America’s struggle with recent droughts that caused thousands of acres worth of crops of maize and beans to fail. United Nations officials warned that millions are at risk of going hungry.
Central American officials claim global warming is part of the reason why their citizens are fleeing en mass, though
“The impacts of climate change are part of the triggers of migration,” the Central American Commission for Environment and Development said in a statement released Thursday.
The recent droughts to hit Central America were driven by the incredibly strong El Nino that hit in 2015 and has persisted. El Nino, however, is a regularly-occurring natural phenomenon, not the product of human emissions.
And when it comes to droughts, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found “low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.”
The Guardian also noted that federal data showed “a surge in outward migration from western Honduras, a prime coffee-producing area.” That’s because the collapse in coffee bean prices has made growing it less profitable, forcing migrants to hit the road.
Just an example of how those on the left use these lame issues like global warming to convince their low information voters. All we need to do is spend trillions of dollars in taxpayer funds to stop global warming, according to the left. No, what we need to do is focus on helping to build the USA up more, and secure our borders. People are not trying to enter America because of global warming. Only fools would believe that.
FOX reported that some of these so called Poor Farmers, you know the ones who are only seeking a better life for themselves ad their families, have guns and even explosives and that some of the Mexican Police have been shot. Actually I can understand why some might feel that then need a gun to protect themselves but what are they planning to do with the explosives? Is this a new farming technique?
Once again the Media proves the President right they are without a doubt Fake News
If this is the case, how about we move all of the media idiots there .I am sick to death of all of their dam- lies. I think it is way past time for them to grow up, we couldn’t stand Obama, but we never acted like they are. Obama was EVIL.
So The MSM wants people to believe that they’re escaping global warming by coming to a country that according to Gore,is the country that holds most of the responsibility for global warming.
I’d like someone to show me and “actual” farmer, in that group.
This is a very laughable reason for the caravan leaving their country. Climate is planned by nature. How these caravan of people know global warming , which in the first place was a hoax perpetuated by the globalist (vice president /Clinton adm, forgot his name) as an introduction to the One World Order.
Does the name Alfred Ghoar sound familiar?