"Report: Climate change may lead to war"
Assuming such a report truly did originate from the Pentagon, some of these claims are so dramatic I'm uncertain whether even the loudest proponents of global warming research would support them. Yet, if true, to me it's a welcome sign that some people see even the remotest risk of the entailing consequences of global warming as so dangerous that we must focus our attention on the possibility now---rather than waiting for a disaster.
Excerpt:
Its authors - Peter Schwartz, a CIA consultant and a former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of Global Business Network based in California - said climate change should be considered "immediately" as a top political and military issue.
It "should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern", they were quoted as saying.
Experts familiar with the report told the newspaper that the threat to global stability "vastly eclipses that of terrorism".
Excerpt:
Its authors - Peter Schwartz, a CIA consultant and a former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of Global Business Network based in California - said climate change should be considered "immediately" as a top political and military issue.
It "should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern", they were quoted as saying.
Experts familiar with the report told the newspaper that the threat to global stability "vastly eclipses that of terrorism".
// 2/22/2004 
