Charlotte Church stuns TV viewers by blaming Syria's brutal four-year civil war on CLIMATE CHANGE (so not ISIS or Assad then?)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3257633/Charlotte-Church-blames-Syria-s-brutal-four-year-civil-war-CLIMATE-CHANGE-not-ISIS-Assad.html

Singer and left-wing activist Charlotte Church sparked ridicule after blaming the Syrian civil war – on climate change.

The millionaire former child prodigy, appearing on the BBC's Question Time last night, said global warming was 'a big factor' in the brutal conflict between rebel groups, ISIS and Bashar Assad.

Ms Church, who has become a high-profile campaigner against the Government's austerity programme, later took to Twitter to complain about the programme's audience after they responded to her complaint about climate change with silence.

 

Last night's Question Time was filmed in Ms Church's home town on Cardiff and featured Labour's new MP Stephen Kinnock, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood, Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb and Margaret Thatcher's biographer Charles Moore.

The panel was asked if British airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria should be ruled out.

Ms Church said we should ask the Syrian people who their real enemy is.

But she then added: 'Another interesting thing with Syria actually, lots of people don't seem to know about it, is there is evidence to suggest that climate change was a big factor in how the Syrian conflict came about.'

 

She said between 2006 and 2011 the country experienced one of the worst droughts in its history.

Ms Church added: 'This of course meant that there were water shortages and crops weren't growing so there was a mass migration from rural areas of Syria in the urban centres which put more strain and resources were scarce et cetera.'

She said this 'did contribute to the conflict there today'.

The singer added: 'No issue is an island, so I also think we need to look at what we're doing to the planet and how that might actually cause more conflict in the world.'

Her comments were met with complete silence from the audience.

After the show Ms Church admitted her appearance on the long-running programme had been tough.

She said the hostile crowd did not feel like any Welsh crowd she would recognise.

Ms Church attacked those on Twitter who had ridiculed her climate change observation.

She said they should 'go do some research - come back to me and we'll have a conversation about 'the real world''.

Ms Church also shared a message on Twitter that read: 'That [BBC Question Time] audience was not representative of the Wales I know and live in. Mostly ill informed. Mainly right wing.'

During last night's episode Ms Church also praised Jeremy Corbyn's vow never to use nuclear weapons.

The Labour leader has faced mounting criticism from within the Labour party over his admission that he would never authorise a military strike as Prime Minister.

But Ms Church said: 'I think that it's commendable. I think that if nuclear warfare occurs then you know, you've got the start of World War Three, so I actually think it's a really commendable place to come from to say 'no I would not be prepared to destroy hundreds of thousands of people'. Yeah I think it's a commendable place to come from.'