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The crowd responded to her comment by doing an impression of a graveyard; and partway through her monologue, host David Dimbleby let out the sort of "alright," you might say to your grandmother when she's talking in a restaurant, and starting to get a teeny bit racist. Church apparently felt the burn later on, and started tweeting about it.So there was a mass migration from rural areas in Syria, into the urban centers, which put more strain, and y'know there was—resources were scarce, et cetera—which, apparently, did contribute to, um, to the conflict there today, and so, y'know, when we're looking at—y'know no issue is an island, and we're trying to look at all the different factors in this, so I think that we also need to look at what we're doing to the planet and how that might actually cause more conflict in the world.
British publications like The Daily Mail, and The Telegraph excerpted the clip, and got plenty of mileage out of it, with commenters asking things like, "Did she read that in her colouring books?" and "What did you expect from this stupid little girl?" (Church is 29 years old).Her timing and delivery were awkward without a doubt, but did she say anything inaccurate?Colin Kelley, a climate scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara called Church's monologue "basically correct." Kelley co-wrote the recent paper "Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought," published in January in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He was quick to point out, though, that his paper never said climate change was the sole cause of Syria's recent horrors. "She didn't say that, and we didn't say that," Kelley said.Can't say I had a ball on question time, that's not a Cardiff/Welsh audience that I would recognise. However thanks for your support twitter
— Charlotte Church (@charlottechurch)October 1, 2015
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