Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet links to a video by The Leap, a group founded by author and activist Naomi Klein. The Leap’s video discusses “why the climate movement must fight for migrant justice to win the world we want.”
It’s part of a growing effort to link global warming to a host of seemingly unrelated issues, like immigration, national security and health care. Former Vice President Al Gore repeatedly tried to link man-made warming to the current wave of migration from Central America to the U.S.
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Droughts hit Central America in recent years, driven by the incredibly strong El Nino in 2015. El Nino is a regularly occurring natural phenomenon, not the product of human emissions.
What does the science say about droughts and global warming? Climate models generally project some regions will see more frequent droughts by the end of the century, but tying today’s droughts to human emissions is problematic.
The United Nation’s most recent climate report found “slow confidence in the sign of drought trends since 1950 at the global scale,” but high confidence in trends in some regions, which included decreases in drought frequency in central North America.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/ocasio-cortez-climate-immigration/
It’s part of a growing effort to link global warming to a host of seemingly unrelated issues, like immigration, national security and health care. Former Vice President Al Gore repeatedly tried to link man-made warming to the current wave of migration from Central America to the U.S.
[clip]
Droughts hit Central America in recent years, driven by the incredibly strong El Nino in 2015. El Nino is a regularly occurring natural phenomenon, not the product of human emissions.
What does the science say about droughts and global warming? Climate models generally project some regions will see more frequent droughts by the end of the century, but tying today’s droughts to human emissions is problematic.
The United Nation’s most recent climate report found “slow confidence in the sign of drought trends since 1950 at the global scale,” but high confidence in trends in some regions, which included decreases in drought frequency in central North America.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/ocasio-cortez-climate-immigration/
