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Old news: climate change will destroy us

Postby nomo » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:06 pm

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>From two and a half years ago:<br></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html">observer.guardian.co.uk/i...13,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us<br><br>· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war<br>· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years<br>· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism<br><br>Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York<br>Sunday February 22, 2004<br>The Observer<br><br>Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'<br><br>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.<br><br>The report was commissioned by influential Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall, who has held considerable sway on US military thinking over the past three decades. He was the man behind a sweeping recent review aimed at transforming the American military under Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.<br><br>Climate change 'should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern', say the authors, Peter Schwartz, CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network.<br><br>An imminent scenario of catastrophic climate change is 'plausible and would challenge United States national security in ways that should be considered immediately', they conclude. As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions.<br><br>Last week the Bush administration came under heavy fire from a large body of respected scientists who claimed that it cherry-picked science to suit its policy agenda and suppressed studies that it did not like. Jeremy Symons, a former whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said that suppression of the report for four months was a further example of the White House trying to bury the threat of climate change.<br><br>Senior climatologists, however, believe that their verdicts could prove the catalyst in forcing Bush to accept climate change as a real and happening phenomenon. They also hope it will convince the United States to sign up to global treaties to reduce the rate of climatic change.<br><br>A group of eminent UK scientists recently visited the White House to voice their fears over global warming, part of an intensifying drive to get the US to treat the issue seriously. Sources have told The Observer that American officials appeared extremely sensitive about the issue when faced with complaints that America's public stance appeared increasingly out of touch.<br><br>One even alleged that the White House had written to complain about some of the comments attributed to Professor Sir David King, Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, after he branded the President's position on the issue as indefensible.<br><br>Among those scientists present at the White House talks were Professor John Schellnhuber, former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK's leading group of climate scientists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He said that the Pentagon's internal fears should prove the 'tipping point' in persuading Bush to accept climatic change.<br><br>Sir John Houghton, former chief executive of the Meteorological Office - and the first senior figure to liken the threat of climate change to that of terrorism - said: 'If the Pentagon is sending out that sort of message, then this is an important document indeed.'<br><br>Bob Watson, chief scientist for the World Bank and former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, added that the Pentagon's dire warnings could no longer be ignored.<br><br>'Can Bush ignore the Pentagon? It's going be hard to blow off this sort of document. Its hugely embarrassing. After all, Bush's single highest priority is national defence. The Pentagon is no wacko, liberal group, generally speaking it is conservative. If climate change is a threat to national security and the economy, then he has to act. There are two groups the Bush Administration tend to listen to, the oil lobby and the Pentagon,' added Watson.<br><br>'You've got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you've got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars. It's pretty scary when Bush starts to ignore his own government on this issue,' said Rob Gueterbock of Greenpeace.<br><br>Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated.<br><br>Randall told The Observer that the potential ramifications of rapid climate change would create global chaos. 'This is depressing stuff,' he said. 'It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat.'<br><br>Randall added that it was already possibly too late to prevent a disaster happening. 'We don't know exactly where we are in the process. It could start tomorrow and we would not know for another five years,' he said.<br><br>'The consequences for some nations of the climate change are unbelievable. It seems obvious that cutting the use of fossil fuels would be worthwhile.'<br><br>So dramatic are the report's scenarios, Watson said, that they may prove vital in the US elections. Democratic frontrunner John Kerry is known to accept climate change as a real problem. Scientists disillusioned with Bush's stance are threatening to make sure Kerry uses the Pentagon report in his campaign.<br><br>The fact that Marshall is behind its scathing findings will aid Kerry's cause. Marshall, 82, is a Pentagon legend who heads a secretive think-tank dedicated to weighing risks to national security called the Office of Net Assessment. Dubbed 'Yoda' by Pentagon insiders who respect his vast experience, he is credited with being behind the Department of Defence's push on ballistic-missile defence.<br><br>Symons, who left the EPA in protest at political interference, said that the suppression of the report was a further instance of the White House trying to bury evidence of climate change. 'It is yet another example of why this government should stop burying its head in the sand on this issue.'<br><br>Symons said the Bush administration's close links to high-powered energy and oil companies was vital in understanding why climate change was received sceptically in the Oval Office. 'This administration is ignoring the evidence in order to placate a handful of large energy and oil companies,' he added. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Old news: climate change will destroy us

Postby wintler » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:25 pm

I'm half way thru The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery, and it is downright terrifying. The changes ALREADY seen in sea ice/glaciers/sea temps/species distributions/night temps/rainfall/etc are shocking, all referenced by scores of peer reviewed quantitative studies. There is every reason to doubt reports published out of the Pentagon, but the volume of international science supporting accelerating climate change is too big for any conspiracy. <br>The current drought & heat waves affecting the US & Europe are just the poetic justice entree's, we <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>could</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> see half of all current species disappear in this century, so 'suck it up' doubters, you created it. Our childrens children will curse us every day of their lives. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Old news: climate change will destroy us

Postby rain » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:13 am

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>you created it<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>damn it Wintler, I don't have time to argue, sorry, discourse on this with you right now, but are you going to be cheering as they're rounded up and carted off to the camps? or dropping in the millions from release of the cooked up super-bug ?<br>do you feel vindicated for the current carnage in Palestine, that being just one example? <br>are they to blame for the tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes too? how about the comets? should I add gamma ray bursts and curious solar activity?<br>straight up, you're just spouting more f*kin' disinfo for the fascist agenda.<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rain@rigorousintuition>rain</A> at: 8/2/06 10:59 pm<br></i>
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Re: Old news: climate change will destroy us

Postby yesferatu » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:40 am

Some high level releases of reports like this, with MSM on board, they won't have to wait long for their predicted riots.<br>Keep injecting this into daily news, should do the trick. <br><br>There have been enough environmental disaster-impending dots connected within the last month just here at RI to make me cringe when I look at my 5 year old. From jellyfish to yellowjackets to <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>everything else <br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, it is all there. If it hasn't sunk in to us just how f#@&*d up things REALLY are, think how ignorant the MSM watchers are to what is happening. <br>Maybe the PTB want the riots to start. They certainly have the camps sitting empty. I see no reason why they are releasing this info. They have always fought to keep info that would create panic tightly held against such scenarios.<br><br>What gives? I mean what?...over at the Penatgon they suddenly said to themselves, "Gosh, y'know, Al Gore is right. We need to do something for our planet. Gosh."<br>Puh-leeeez. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Old news: climate change will destroy us

Postby rain » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:56 am

yeah, something like that yesferatu.<br><br>certainly good war agitprop.<br>ya know 'it's them or us'<br><br>and they always have a go during major environmental upheaval.<br><br>but then I think of those thousands upon thousands who've hit the streets over these issues.<br><br>people with conscience and people with heart.<br><br>whatever the individual comprehension is as to what's going on, they're going to try to find constructive, supportive and hopefully more enlightened ways through this.<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Climate Porn

Postby Trifecta » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:39 am

Can you say chemtrails <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>You know, sucking in as a voyer with non participation. This climate porn is set to increase expontentially over the coming years, of course we need the camps, once the awareness filters down to the non thinking classes, they is going to buy more guns, posit themselves over thy neighbour and the state is threatened..paints a picture don't it.<br><br>As much as geo engineering ops can be used to thwart the knee jerk psychological denial, its a simpler way of thining the heard and blaming them for the fact they need to be clensed for mother earth has spoken..the end is neigh.<br><br>Can't wait for el cia duh to be made responsible for this reverse anti seeding, thin the crops, regurgitating the land and back engineer it when the crowd has disapeared.<br><br>The clash of civilisations will be much easier as the food and water disapear ... just look at the current global tactical warfare.<br><br>The answer .... full and complete exposure of the geo engineering ops, the relase of free energy from their vaccums oh and complete and utter freedom of lifes spirit and its life force.<br><br>Watch the mediaganda suck in the believers to the climate porn...nut roast any one <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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