the Pentagon sees Global Warming

[donsu]

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,582584-1,00.html

CLIMATE COLLAPSE
The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare
The climate could change radically, and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues.


Global warming may be bad news for future generations, but let's face it, most of us spend as little time worrying about it as we did about al Qaeda before 9/11. Like the terrorists, though, the seemingly remote climate risk may hit home sooner and harder than we ever imagined. In fact, the prospect has become so real that the Pentagon's strategic planners are grappling with it.

The threat that has riveted their attention is this: Global warming, rather than causing gradual, centuries-spanning change, may be pushing the climate to a tipping point. Growing evidence suggests the ocean-atmosphere system that controls the world's climate can lurch from one state to another in less than a decade—like a canoe that's gradually tilted until suddenly it flips over. Scientists don't know how close the system is to a critical threshold. But abrupt climate change may well occur in the not-too-distant future. If it does, the need to rapidly adapt may overwhelm many societies—thereby upsetting the geopolitical balance of power.


-snip-

The Pentagon's reaction to this sobering report isn't known—in keeping with his reputation for reticence, Andy Marshall declined to be interviewed. But the fact that he's concerned may signal a sea change in the debate about global warming. At least some federal thought leaders may be starting to perceive climate change less as a political annoyance and more as an issue demanding action.
---------------------------

this is a 3 pg. article which tells of the Pentagon's study and conclusions and telling what it will be like as this happens, none of which is good, all of which is bad.

[judge_smales]

1. Wait 'till Rummy sees this!!

He'll whip this idiots back into line. They'll be recanting by dinner time.

[grannylib]

2. Well are we surprised? This issue has been on the table for so long now

and those who stand to make money have been wielding power for so long that we are now in deep doo doo...and still Chimpy talks about sloppy science, like he would know...
morons are going to be the death of us all.