Congress Warned That Global Warming Is Threat to Israel and Moderate Arab States

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http://www.forward.com/articles/congress-warned-that-global-warming-is-threat-to-i/

Washington — Proponents of tough legislation against greenhouse gas emissions are seizing on a new argument in their attempts to talk lawmakers into taking action: the threat that global warming will lead to instability in the Middle East and endanger Israel’s security.

In a series of briefings last week on Capitol Hill and with Jewish organizations, a team of experts from Israel presented data indicating that if action to stop global warming is not taken immediately, moderate regimes in the Middle East might collapse and tensions between Israel and its neighbors might rise due to a decrease in rainfall, loss of water sources and increase in extreme weather phenomena.

Jewish groups and activists have already been pressing for action on global warming, with security-minded voices prioritizing the need to end America’s dependence on foreign oil, and others stressing environmental concerns. But the current efforts to predict global warming’s geopolitical effects on Israeli and American regional interests represent a new approach to trigger action on the issue.

“We came here to raise a red flag,” said Gidon Bromberg, one of the Israeli experts who appeared in Washington last week. “We are saying that there is a security interest that needs to be dealt with, and for that we need American leadership.”

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[yurbud]

1. good idea. If we can get AIPAC on the case, we'll all be driving electric cars by Monday

if only progressive lobbyists could inspire that kind of loyalty and fear.

[PATRICK]

2. More important than war with Iran?

Guess which prayer the Godking will listen to. All the schemers in the ME should have concentrated on this above the full plate of lunacies and interests that consume their real attetnion and resources. Desertification, oil crisis, loss of opportunity to moderate and strengthen the peoples there will make the region an abandonned desert Balkans where emaciated fanatics will have their hands locked on each others' parched throats. The rich in their infinite wisdom will desert all their respective peoples to fortified havens and money vaults. Only peace and justice could have offered any hope. That and world support not unilateral empire schemes.

They propose sanity to leaders entrenched in abominations. Better to call for an end to the current leaders. That is sane too.

[ixion]

3. that headline is kind of amusing

...it's as if global warming cared where it's effect would be placed. :rofl:

[Uncle Joe]

4. I'll take it, thanks for the thread swag.

Kicked and recommended.

[RestoreGore]

5. Yeah, I guess drought in Africa and the rest of the world isn't good enough to move them

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6. It's funny that so many are ready to attack this piece from the Jewish Daily Forward

with corrosive cynicism.

Go to DU search, enter "warming" for "big forums" for the past 24 hours and you will find lots of parochial interests referenced. Alliance among these groups is occurring and is a good thing.