Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/04/2009 11:21:15 AM PST by Publius804
Global Warming Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
The Cold War shaped world politics for half a century. But global warming may shape the patterns of global conflict for much longer than that -- and help spark clashes that will be, in every sense of the word, hot wars.
We're used to thinking of climate change as an environmental problem, not a military one, but it's long past time to alter that mindset. Climate change may mean changes in Western lifestyles, but in some parts of the world, it will mean far more. Living in Washington, I may respond to global warming by buying a Prius, planting a tree or lowering my thermostat. But elsewhere, people will respond to climate change by building bomb shelters and buying guns.
"There is every reason to believe that as the 21st century unfolds, the security story will be bound together with climate change," warns John Ashton, a veteran diplomat who is now the United Kingdom's first special envoy on climate change. "The last time the world faced a challenge this complex was during the Cold War. Yet the stakes this time are even higher because the enemy now is ourselves, the choices we make."
Defense experts have also started to see the link between climate change and conflict. A 2007 CNA Corp. report, supervised by a dozen retired admirals and generals, warned that climate change could lead to political unrest in numerous badly hit countries, then perhaps to outright bloodshed and battle. One key factor that could stoke these tensions is massive migration as people flee increasingly uninhabitable areas, which would lead to border tensions, greater demands for rescue and evacuation services and disputes over essential resources.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What iceberg? You've already said they all have melted.
I got yer tip right here, enviro-wackos.
The problem this writer has is an abundance of keys on his keyboard, but a scarcity of brain cells.
the problems of an increase in abundance
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It’s good for Lee but not for thee...
WaPo still publishing bull-feathers, I see.
Global warming will lead to war with Canada.
Who knew?
Hot wars......Yes.....but the reason is not what this idiot thinks.
War to preserve Freedom will be the result. It will happen all over the world. Once people are squeezed too far and find out the reason was a hoax, lookout!
Living in CT I will do none of the above. I'm freezing my ass off and was just getting use to the winters with little snow and along comes the colder weather again. BBGW now!
Some global warming, huh? There hasn't been a single sunspot in almost 25 days now, and hardly any in the last year plus. Sunspots directly correlate with the amount of solar radiation output; the more sunspots, generally the warmer Earth will be. In the last several decades, solar activity has supposedly been the highest since 8,000 years ago. Thus the reason why 2008 was a cooler year.
Ya, and 20M is deal almost all day long as well.
>>”Living in Washington, I may respond to global warming by buying a Prius, planting a tree or lowering my thermostat”
Just arrived from British Columbia, Canada with the worst winter storm in 40 years and in L.A., the temp is 50 degrees.
Give me the Prius so I could burn it...oh wait, there’s a lot of them here with the obama stickers on them.
We are living kind of a brutal winter in my neighborhood. I hope to G_d it's the whole iceberg. I hate to see what will happen if it's just the tip.
Solar flares from sunspots, which are magnetic storms on the suns surface, can have flares as high as 400,000 miles. They send a huge stream of radiation that interacts with the earths magnetosphere to affect weather patterns.
And yet Al Gore and the warmists largely ignore the suns output - thinking mankind's CO2 production is the predominate effect on climate.
Idiocy!
That's the price we pay for building a high speed corridor from Mexico to Canada, I guess.
But if it funnels the illegals to the balmy, sunny climes of the newly unfrozen Far North, just to do those jobs Canadians don't want to do, then it isn't all bad.
We can not ask them for documents, while selling them the food, gas, and motel rooms along their route. No more just settling for putting free jugs of water in the desert, since they'll just be passing through instead of coming to stay.
Don’t be shy. Opinion pieces, commentary, masthead editorials without bylines, etc. need to be checked off for the editorial sidebar, IMHO.
Let’s see:
“political unrest in numerous badly hit countries.... then perhaps to outright bloodshed......battle”
So Global Warming is going to upset the Nirvanna we have today? Right?
Same old, same old.
“Living in Washington, I may respond to global warming by buying a Prius, planting a tree or lowering my thermostat”
If the writer lowers his body temperature to ambient that will reduce energy needs even more.
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