Claim: Global Warming Helped Create ISIS

Claim: Global Warming Helped Create ISIS | The Daily Caller:
"Global warming is not only responsible for causing superstorms and the ebola outbreak, it’s now claimed that global warming helped create the conditions in which terrorists with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria could thrive.
Two academics have put forward the theory that a historic drought helped to spread unrest in Syria, sparking a chaotic civil war that ISIS terrorists used to gain power and commit atrocities throughout the region.
“A historic drought afflicted the country from 2006 through 2010, setting off a dire humanitarian crisis for millions of Syrians,” wrote Charles Strozier, a history professor at the City University of New York, and Kelly Berkell, an attorney and researcher with the Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“Yet the four-year drought evoked little response from Bashar al-Assad’s government,” the academics wrote.
.....The two add that fighting global warming is linked to fighting terrorism and political violence around the world.
“If more Americans knew how glacial melt contributes to catastrophic weather in Afghanistan — potentially strengthening the Taliban and imperiling Afghan girls who want to attend school — would we drive more hybrids and use millions fewer plastic bags?
How would elections and legislation be influenced?” Berkell and Strozier wrote."