February 24, 2004
US Pentagon: Climate Change is #1 Global Threat
Man, this is messed up. According to the UK's Guardian Observer, the US Pentagon has released a report suggesting that "Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters."
That's two puny decades, folks -- most likely within your lifetime. Maybe it's time that our government actually admit that global warming is happening and do something about it. And lest pointless debate erupt, I'm posting this here as a note of interest regarding Earth science rather than as a political statement.
Posted by Craig | Permalink | TrackBackDidn't you read the article? The article predicts a "Siberian" environment. That means cold. In other places in refers to "global warming". Regardless, the fact of the matter is that if it's going to happen, we can do little or nothing to stop it. The earth is far to vast to be manipulated by humankind's efforts. Regardless, your comment about Earth science is just plain wrong. Few scientific conclusions can be made for or against global warming (or cooling). The data is lacking and will so for some time.
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"The earth is far to vast to be manipulated by humankind's efforts."
LOL! Thanks...I needed that.
If we _wanted_ to manipulate the Earth, we probably couldn't pull it off. However, even authorities in the Pentagon now recognize that there is growing, undisputable evidence that human activities have changed, are changing, and will likely change, the Earth in some increasingly unsubtle ways.
Of course, to be fair, this evidence is being produced by the same so-called "scientists" that have supported those other crazy notions like the sun being the center of the solar system, the Earth being round, germ theory, and evolution.
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