Leaked Pentagon memo warns coronavirus pandemic could last until summer 2021: report
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The Hill ^
| 5/19/2020 | ellen mitchell
A leaked Pentagon memo on Tuesday revealed that top Defense Department officials have been planning for the possibility that the military could be dealing with a “globally-persistent” coronavirus pandemic well into 2021. The
memo, obtained by Task and Purpose, also warns of the “real possibility” that a vaccine for COVID-19 won’t be available until “at least the summer of 2021.” “We have a long path ahead, with the real possibility of a resurgence of COVID-19. Therefore, we must now re-focus our attention on resuming critical missions, increasing levels of activity, and making necessary preparations should a significant resurgence of COVID-19...
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UN climate report warns "time is fast running out" to avert the worst impacts of climate change
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CBS "News" ^
| March 10, 2020 | BY JEFF BERARDELLI
The United Nations' weather and climate agency is out with its annual State of the Climate report, and it says "the tell-tale physical signs of climate change" are everywhere. The
report documents unprecedented heat waves, fires and floods over the past year, and warns that there is likely more to come. In the report, the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) cited the historic fires in Australia and the Amazon, record-shattering heat waves in Europe, and soaring levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In a statement released with the report, the leader of the United Nations calls climate change "the...
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Climate change could lead to global catastrophe, new report warns
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Yahoo! News ^
| February 27, 2020 | by Alexander Nazaryan
WASHINGTON — Climate change activism in popular culture may be associated with woke millennials and graying hippies, but some of the most dire warnings about global warming are coming today from national security professionals. As
the Trump administration has downplayed climate change as a national priority, it has increasingly fallen to members of the military and intelligence establishment to argue to keep focus and resources on climate change. On the whole, they treat global warming not as an environmental phenomenon or a moral imperative, but, rather as a force capable of altering the nation’s security outlook. The calculus is, as...
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Al Gore warns: UN climate change report shows 'we have a global emergency'
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The Hill ^
| 10/12/18 | JUSTIN WISE
Former Vice President Al Gore said Friday that the United Nations' new report on climate change demonstrates that the world is experiencing a "global emergency." “We
have a global emergency,” Gore said in an interview on PBS NewsHour. "You use a phrase like that and some people immediately say, ‘okay calm down, it can’t be that bad.’ But it it is." "What the scientists have warned us in this recent report is that if we do not take action quickly … then consequences down the road would be far, far worse than what we’re experiencing now," Gore added, stating that...
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Climate change: Report warns of growing impact on US life (hurl alert)
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BBC News ^
| 23rd November 2018 | BBC News
Unchecked climate change will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and damage human health and quality of life, a US government report warns. "Future
risks from climate change depend... on decisions made today," the 4th National Climate Assessment says. The report says climate change is "presenting growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth". The warning is at odds with the Trump administration's fossil fuels agenda. The White House said the report - compiled with help from numerous US government agencies and departments - was inaccurate. Spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said...
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Climate refugees? Biden executive order wants study on resettling those 'displaced' by climate change
Report requests 'options for protection and resettlement of individuals' displaced by climate change
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Fox News ^
| 2/11/2021 | Adam Shaw
President Biden’s recent executive order on refugees includes a direction for a study on the impacts of climate change on migration, as well as options for the "protection and resettlement of individuals" displaced by environmental change. The
order for the study comes in a Feb. 4 order on "Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration." The study will be led by the national security adviser, in consultation with the secretaries of State, Defense and Homeland Security -- along with USAID and the director of national intelligence -- and will be...
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US aircraft carrier was stalked for days by a UFO...leaked Pentagon report reveals
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dailymail ^
full title: US aircraft carrier was stalked for days by a UFO travelling at 'ballistic missile speed' which could hover above the sea for six days, leaked Pentagon report reveals Unclassified 2009 Pentagon report on a Navy encounter with a UFO has leaked F-18s encountered the strange object off the coast of
Mexico in November 2004 Previously released video shows the object flying at incredible speeds New report suggests it may have been docking with an underwater craft Object was white, 46 feet long, shaped like a Tic-Tac with no wings or nacelles Descended from 60,000 feet to 50 feet...
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Pentagon docs allegedly leaked by Jack Teixeira reveal at least 4 additional Chinese spy balloons: report
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NY Post ^
| April 14, 2023 | By Victor Nava
One of the previously undisclosed balloons flew over a US carrier strike group in the Pacific, according to the Washington Post. Another Chinese craft, code-named Bulger-21 by US officials, circumnavigated the Earth from December 2021 until May 2022, according to top-secret documents reviewed by the news outlet. A
third balloon named Accardo-21 is mentioned in the documents and a fourth is referenced to have crashed in the South China Sea, the Washington Post reports, noting that it is unclear if Bulger-21 and Accardo-21 were the same balloons that crashed and flew over the carrier strike group. Department of Defense/MegaThe documents...
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Hagel Unveils Pentagon Global Warming Strategy, Warns Climate Change Is ‘Threat Multiplier’
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Pajamas Media ^
| 10/13/2014 | Bridget Johnson
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced a new Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap at the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas in Peru today, saying the Pentagon has “nearly completed a baseline survey to assess the vulnerability†due to global warming of more than 7,000 bases, installations, and other facilities.The 20-page document
details three “broad adaptation goalsâ€: “Identify and assess the effects of climate change on the Deparment,†“integrate climate change considerations across the Department and manage associated risks,†and “collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on climate change challenges.â€â€œInitial analysis indicates that four primary climate change phenomena are likely...
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Nearly seven million migrants are 'waiting to cross into Europe': Leaked report warns [tr]
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UK Daily Mail ^
| May 24, 2017 | Mario Ledwith
More than six million asylum seekers are waiting to cross into Europe, a leaked intelligence report warns. There
has been a huge increase in the number of migrants hoping to reach EU countries, it says – contradicting claims from Brussels that the situation is under control. The confidential report, leaked to German newspaper Bild, claims 6.6million migrants are waiting in countries around the Mediterranean sea to cross into Europe, including 2.5million in war-torn North Africa.
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World is on brink of climate calamity, definitive U.N. climate report warns
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The Washington Post ^
| March 20, 2023 | By Sarah Kaplan
Human activities have transformed the planet at a pace and scale unmatched in recorded history, causing irreversible damage to communities and ecosystems, according to one of the most definitive reports ever published about climate change. Leading
scientists warned that the world’s plans to combat these changes are inadequate and that more aggressive actions must be taken to avert catastrophic warming. The report released Monday from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found the world is likely to miss its most ambitious climate target. With few nations on track to fulfill their climate commitments and with the developing world...
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Leaked police report reveals a spike in migrant crime in Germany... and warns that sex attacks, [tr]
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UK Daily Mail ^
| March 8, 2016 | Simon Tomlinson
A leaked confidential police report in Germany warns of spiking refugee crime – including drug and sex offences – and a rise in radicalisation against the state. The
report says 'immigration will lead to more crime and increased police usage' to combat it. The number of crimes – of violence, sexual, property theft and narcotic offences – will rise, says the paper of the North Rhine-Westphalian department of the interior whose 'Immigration' project involves both individual states and central government. The document, entitled 'Challenges To And Impact On The Police', was leaked to news magazine Spiegel.
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Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
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Nature ^
| August 8, 2019 | Quirin Schiermeier
Efforts to curb greenhouse gas-emissions and the impacts of global warming will fall significantly short without drastic changes in global land use, agriculture and human diets, leading researchers warn in a high-level report commissioned by the United Nations. The special report on climate and land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) describes plant-based diets as a major opportunity for mitigating and adapting to climate change ― and includes a policy recommendation to reduce meat consumption.
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Pentagon report warns America is unequipped to defend itself from an EXTRATERRESTRIAL ALIEN invasion
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Daily Mail ^
| Stacey Liberatore
US officials do not have the capabilities to defend America against a hypothetical alien invasion, internal Pentagon watchdogs have determined. A
newly declassified document found the Department of Defense (DoD) lacks comprehensive or coordinated effort to track and analyze UFOs - which have been rebranded Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) in recent years. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) made the eerie conclusion that this blindspot in the DoD's defensive capabilities 'poses a threat to military forces and national security.'
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Leaked U.N. climate report sees 'very high risk' the planet will warm beyond key limit
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Chicago Tribune ^
| February 14, 2018 | by Chris Mooney
A draft United Nations climate science report contains dire news about the warming of the planet, suggesting it will likely cross the key marker of 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, of temperature rise in the 2040s, and that this will be exceedingly difficult to avoid. Temperatures
could subsequently cool down if carbon dioxide is somehow removed from the air later in the century, the document notes. But that prospect is questionable at the massive scales that would be required, it observes. The 31-page draft, a summary of a much-anticipated report on the 1.5 degrees Celsius target expected to...
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U.S. Report Concluded Covid-19 May Have Leaked From Wuhan La
The 2020 lab report was used by the State Department in its own inquiry during Trump administration
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WSJ ^
A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming the virus leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan is plausible and deserves further investigation, according to people familiar with the classified document. The
study was prepared in May 2020 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and was drawn on by the State Department when it conducted an inquiry into the pandemic’s origins during the final months of the Trump administration.
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U.N. Warns of Global ‘Famine, Chaos, Terrorism and… War’ if COP26 Climate Summit Fails
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breitbart.com ^
| 10/24/2021 | Simon Kent
Any failure by the Cop26 summit in Glasgow to deliver an agreement on future trans-national climate controls could plunge the world into chaos, sparking migration crises alongside food shortages, political disorder and war, the U.N.’s top climate official warned Sunday. Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change,
made her bleak prediction ahead of the opening of the convention on November 1. As some 30,000 people from 197 different countries ready to fly in to the meeting, she warned: We’re really talking about preserving the stability of countries, preserving the institutions that we have built over...
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U.S. Report Found It Plausible Covid-19 Leaked From Wuhan Lab: The 2020 lab report was used by State Dept. in its own inquiry during Trump administration
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Wall Street Journal ^
| 06/08/2021 | Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel
WASHINGTON—A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming the virus leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan is plausible and deserves further investigation, according to people familiar with the classified document. The
study was prepared in May 2020 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and was drawn on by the State Department when it conducted an inquiry into the pandemic’s origins during the final months of the Trump administration. It is attracting fresh interest in Congress now that President Biden has ordered that U.S. intelligence agencies report to...
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What the new report on climate change expects from you
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CNN ^
| October 8, 2018 | By Eliza Mackintosh
A stark new report from the global scientific authority on climate change calls on individuals, as well as governments, to take action to avoid disastrous levels of global warming. The
IPCC's models emphasize the need for people to change their lifestyle and consumption patterns to more sustainable alternatives, specifically in areas they can control, like modes of transportation, the buildings they inhabit and their dietary preferences. Here's what consumers can do: Transportation: In order to meet the 1.5C goal, the IPCC envisages a future where people travel less, and that generally consumer preferences shift to more sustainable choices like car...
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Climate change already costing U.S. billions, GAO report says
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Chicago Tribune ^
| October 24, 2017 | by Michael Biesecker
A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year, with those costs expected to rise as devastating storms, floods, wildfires and droughts become more frequent in the coming decades. A
Government Accountability Office report released Monday said the federal government has spent more than $350 billion over the last decade on disaster assistance programs and losses from flood and crop insurance. That tally does not include the massive toll from this year's three major hurricanes and wildfires, expected to be among the most costly in the nation's history. The report predicts these...
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