Blogcritics: Comments on PENTAGON REPORT: APOCALYPSE NOW!

Comment by Dave

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:39:56 EST

Quick! Somebody call Art Bell!

Comment by Eric Olsen

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:57:31 EST

Nature appears to move in two paths: slow and gradual, like the incremental generational changes of typical evolution; and cataclysmically, which happens periodically one way or another via volcanic activity, abrupt climate change, asteroids, or when really fat people trip and fall.

Comment by Shark

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:48:24 EST

Dave, In case of rapture, can I have your car?

Comment by David Flanagan

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:33:49 EST

One web address: Where will you be?

Comment by Mark Saleski

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:19:40 EST

Help, Help, the sky is falling!!!!! you can see the sky with your head stuck in the sand? cool!!

Comment by debbie

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:56:31 EST

Help, Help, the sky is falling!!!!!

Comment by Hal Pawluk

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:43:52 EST

Thanks for the links, Casper. The Fortune article did include a useful thought:

"Over the past decade, data have accumulated suggesting that the plausibility of abrupt climate change is higher than most of the scientific community, and perhaps all of the political community, are prepared to accept. In light of such findings, we should be asking when abrupt change will happen, what the impacts will be, and how we can prepare—not whether it will really happen. In fact, the climate record suggests that abrupt change is inevitable at some point, regardless of human activity."

Comment by Casper

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:32:28 EST

Sorry about the garbage quotes.... It's a cut and paste boo-boo.

Comment by Casper

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:31:17 EST

Just as a side note, this has been reported in various places, this is both old news and hardly supressed.

The report isn't secret, it wasn't suppressed, the Observer isn't the first to "obtain" it, and it was prepared for, rather than by, the Pentagon. Fortune magazine had the whole story last month

Comment by Shark

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:11:36 EST

re. Worst case scenario planning - I guess I tend to want to err on the side of survival. (and had the Pentagon, INS, FBI, CIA, et al. done other 'worst case' planning, we might not be in some of messes we're in now.) btw: you can throw out global warming and replace it with 6 billion plus on the planet -- and a BEST case scenario is pretty friggin' scary. The good news: max out those credit cards, kids, 'cause it looks like we might not be around to have to pay 'em off.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:59:33 EST

1) global warming is real 2) the administration's refusal to accept the obvious is disingenuous pandering to special interests, the worst part of the administration's worst part (energy policy in general). 3) but this report is still completely speculative and is obviously a worst-case scenario. Both you and the Observer fudge that part a bit.

Comment by Shark

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:53:30 EST

Oh yah, I forgot: AND HAVE A NICE DAY!