You think it's bad now, just wait. A new Pentagon report has some dire predictions concerning the effects of global warming in the very near future.
GUARDIAN UK ARTICLE EXCERPT:
"A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world."
"The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents."
"'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'"
"...The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority."
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We all know that the Pentagon is just a liberal mouthpiece of leftist, enviornmental tree-huggers, so one hopes that the conclusions are more 'liberal hand-wringing' and have no consequences as to current and future Bush administration policies.
Below are some of the Pentagon's conclusions for YOUR FUTURE; As you read, you might want to check your home's ammo supply and strap on your Mad Max leathers. It's gonna be a wild ride:
* Future wars will be fought over the issue of survival rather than religion, ideology or national honour.
* By 2007 violent storms smash coastal barriers rendering large parts of the Netherlands inhabitable. Cities like The Hague are abandoned. In California the delta island levees in the Sacramento river area are breached, disrupting the aqueduct system transporting water from north to south.
* Between 2010 and 2020 Europe is hardest hit by climatic change with an average annual temperature drop of 6F. Climate in Britain becomes colder and drier as weather patterns begin to resemble Siberia.
Article comments
1 - Shark
Oh yah, I forgot:
AND HAVE A NICE DAY!
2 - Eric Olsen
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.
3 - Shark
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.
4 - Casper
Just as a side note, this has been reported in various places, this is both old news and hardly supressed.
5 - Casper
Sorry about the garbage quotes.... It's a cut and paste boo-boo.
6 - Hal Pawluk
Thanks for the links, Casper.
The Fortune article did include a useful thought:
7 - debbie
Help, Help, the sky is falling!!!!!
8 - Mark Saleski
Help, Help, the sky is falling!!!!!
you can see the sky with your head stuck in the sand?
cool!!
9 - David Flanagan
One web address:
Where will you be?
10 - Shark
Dave,
In case of rapture, can I have your car?
11 - Eric Olsen
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.
12 - Dave
Quick!
Somebody call Art Bell!