Secret Pentagon Report tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

[Ichingcarpenter]

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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver

[kestrel91316]

1. OLD news: Sunday February 22 2004

[islandmkl]

2. might be old news...but I wish I had known it back in '04...

I could have gotten a head start on the Colorado beach front real estate market.

[Richard D]

3. That article is . . .

. . . from 2004. Wonder what the Pentagon is saying now. Interesting times ahead.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Move along. There is nothing to see here (smirk)." - Commander AWOL Bush

"Move along. There is nothing to see here."

- America's pathetic propagandizing Republicon-controlled corporate media

[originalpckelly]

5. Well, considering all human life ended 01/01/2000...

this article is pointless. We aren't even here. Computers with bad date formatting set off a nuclear war and the whole planet was annihilated, well aside from those brave few in their mother's basements also known as Free Republic. Now they must find each other, and despite the hideousness of their species, repopulate the Earth.

Let's leave this Earth and let the Morlocks have their way with it.

[seemslikeadream]

6. "If you stand up for what you do believe,

Be prepared to be shot down."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUszp9QFmq4


You poisoned my sweet water.
You cut down my green trees.
The food you fed my children
Was the cause of their disease.
My world is slowly fallin' down
And the airs not good to breathe.
And those of us who care enough,
We have to do something.......

Oh.......oh What you gonna do about me?
Oh.......oh What you gonna do about me?
Your newspapers,
They just put you on.
They never tell you
The whole story.
They just put your
Young ideas down.
I was wonderin' could this be the end
Of your pride and glory?

I work in your factory.
I study in your schools.
I fill your penitentiaries.
And your military too!
And I feel the future trembling,
As the word is passed around.
"If you stand up for what you do believe,
Be prepared to be shot down."

And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run..........................
An Im always getting busted
And I got to take a stand........
I believe the revolution
Must be mighty close at hand.......................

I smoke marijuana
But I cant get behind your wars.
And most of what I do believe
Is against most of your laws
I'm a fugitive from injustice
But I'm goin' to be free.
Cause your rules and regulations
They dont do the thing for me

And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live just like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run.

[crispini]

7. Well, that's cheerful.

Ugh.

[vssmith]

8. He'll never read it

[Virginia Dare]

9. Yet Bush still thinks history will eventually judge him to be a brilliant leader..

I put the chances of that between nil and none.

[nilram]

10. and when did pappy B buy the estate in Paraguay? hmm. -nt

[lovuian]

11. The retired Generals told him the same thing

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bNMkyvNGKrc

we are so very screwed because of this greedy SOB"S and nuclear war won't solve it either