Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
Sunday February 22, 2004
The Observer


Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
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.

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.

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.

Heat converts Bush ally Robertson on global warming
Thu Aug 3, 2006 6:58pm ET

By Timothy Gardner

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States had converted him into a believer in global warming.

The view put him at odds with fellow Republican President George W. Bush, who has benefited politically from Robertson's backing and who has refused to embrace the concept of human-caused global warming.

"We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels," Robertson said on his "700 Club" broadcast. "It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air."

It was an abrupt about-face for Robertson who reaches about one million U.S. viewers daily and is credited for helping shape political views of evangelical Christians, a vibrant force behind the Republican Party.

Last October, Robertson said the National Association of Evangelicals was teaming up with "far left environmentalists" for saying global warming was caused by humans and needed to be mitigated.

Also last year, Robertson, 76, said natural disasters affecting the globe, including hurricanes Katrina and Rita that wrecked the U.S. Gulf Coast, might be signs that the biblical apocalypse was nearing.

Temperatures have soared to near record levels in some eastern regions and Robertson said that was "the most convincing evidence I've seen on global warming in a long time."

World must race to develop green energy urges Rees

Research drive 'must rival Apollo moon project'. Royal Society presidnet warns of climate disaster.

An urgent project on the scale of the Apollo moon landings is needed to boost resarch into green energy sources and save the planet from environmental disaster, according to Britain's top scientist. Writing in the US journal Science today, Sir Martin Rees, president of Britain's most prestigious scientific institute, the Royal Society, expresses dismmay at GA leader's "worrisome lack of determiantion" to accelerate development of new energy resources, given the expected 50% rise in the world's energy needs - and carbon dioxide emissions - in the next 25 years...

You mean that everything is okay then. Nothing to worry about .The beer won't run out or anything.
It was only a fantasy. A bogeyman.

I never did believe in bogeymen.

By the way, where are all the hurricanes this year? I know theres time yet, but they better get started soon, ya know, with the water in the Caribbean getting hotter and hotter.

Thomas wrote:

Walter Hinteler wrote:

So California signed a pact with the UK to fight global warming now.

The Guardian: Blair signs climate pact with Schwarzenegger

I wonder if this is constitutional? Article 1, Section 10 provides that "[n]o state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation;"

Good point, Thomas. I wondered why Schwarzenegger was doing business directly with England? Does he now have some grandiose dream of pretending he is president of the country or something? I think he should mind his own business, which is running the state of California, instead of entering into pacts, treaties, whatever, with other nations.

Details of environmental deal hammered out between Tony Blair and Arnold Schwarzenegger

· Britain agrees to collect California's rubbish every other Thursday.

· California must separate its rubbish into paper for recycling, glass and plastic bottles and organic matter (including oranges and offcuts from cosmetic surgery).

· Britain will supply California with three 1,200ft wheelie bins, into which California will put its rubbish.

· Britain will not collect any rubbish or biodegradable faces California places outside these wheelie bins.

· California will invite the British leader to Hollywood. To discuss the rubbish.

Steve 4100- One of the best books written on the enviroment was written by Dr. Bjorn Lomborg( I am certain that the learned and erudite Mr. Blatham has not read that book- He limits his references to left wing New Yorkers and drug addicted Canadians)

Scientists: Warming Triggers 'Dead Zone'


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 6, 2006
Filed at 6:55 p.m. ET

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Bottom fish and crabs washing up dead on Oregon beaches are being killed by a recurring ''dead zone'' of low-oxygen water that is larger than in previous years and may be triggered by global warming, scientists said.

There are signs it is spreading north to Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

Scientists studying the 70-mile-long zone of oxygen-depleted water, along the Continental Shelf between Florence and Lincoln City, conclude that it is being caused by explosive blooms of tiny plants known as phytoplankton, which die and sink to the bottom, then are eaten by bacteria which use up the oxygen in the water.

The recurring phytoplankton blooms are triggered by northerly wind, which generates a process known as upwelling in which nutrient-rich water is brought to the surface from lower depths.

''We are seeing wild swings from year to year in the timing and duration of the winds that are favorable for upwelling,'' Jane Lubchenco, professor of marine ecology at Oregon State and a member of the Pew Oceans Commission, said from Corvallis. ''This increased variability in the winds is consistent with what we would expect under climate change.''