Logicalscience

The Pentagon: AGW threat "vastly eclipses that of terrorism"



A "suppressed" report was supposedly leaked to the Guardian UK back in 2004. I missed this article at the time but it is worth revisiting:

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

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Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated.

Randall told The Observer that the potential ramifications of rapid climate change would create global chaos. 'This is depressing stuff,' he said. 'It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat.'

Source:
The Observer, Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us, Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
Sunday February 22, 2004