Report: Global warming may endanger U.S. security

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments and could add to terrorism, all of which could threaten U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies.

"Logic suggests the conditions exacerbated (by climate change) would increase the pool of potential recruits for terrorism," said Tom Fingar, deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, who testified before a joint House committee hearing Wednesday.

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"Climate change will provide the conditions that will extend the war on terror," stated Adm. T. Joseph Lopez, who commanded U.S. and allied peacekeeping forces in Bosnia in 1996.

"Weakened and failing governments, with an already thin margin for survival, foster the conditions for internal conflicts, extremism and movement toward increased authoritarianism and radical ideologies," the previous report said. "The U.S. will be drawn more frequently into these situations," stated the report, which drew on 11 retired generals and admirals.

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008016332_apglobalwarmingsecurity.html?syndication=rss

[fascisthunter]

1. Global Warming will Endanger Everybody and everything

Of course it needs to be explained this way so that those who say they are concerned about National Security may get a clue that Global Warming should be taken more seriously.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. I'm so glad you understood the framing of the issue

I hesitated to post this for fear that people wouldn't realize that this is a necessary and important step in bringing the masses on board.

[fascisthunter]

8. Yeah... I Can Understand your Concern

It's a step and it is important to take. Even if it seems slow to some.

[Overseas]

10. Here's a link to the Pentagon's report in 2003 on global security and climate change scenarios

http://www.grist.org/pdf/AbruptClimateChange2003.pdf

[Phred42]

3. Another one from the Department of: No Shit Sherlock

[bdamomma]

4. it doesn't help when we have criminals in the WH doing this

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25epa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Hugabear]

5. What about Canada's security?

I'm sure that more than a few Americans would be wanting to move northwards to Canada.

[dipsydoodle]

6. Presumably it follows that any corporations

who contribute to global warming will in future be treated as terrorist organisations.

[Deja Q]

7. Wouldn't offshoring endanger US security?

How or when do we get paranoid?

[kestrel91316]

9. OMG. They are only NOW figuring this out????

Hell, DOD gave Bush a report several YEARS ago saying GW was a national security threat. I guess he just said, "Hmph!" and threw it in the round file.

[underpants]

11. DING!-exactly the Pentagon reported that global warming was a bigger threat in Feb 2004

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/world-bank-pentagon-warn-cli