Weather of Mass Destruction
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This is a tough one. Who are you supposed to invade when you find out climate change is a greater threat than terrorism?
The report was ordered by an influential US Pentagon advisor but was covered up by “US defense chiefs” for four months, until it was “obtained” by the British weekly The Observer.
The leak promises to draw angry attention to US environmental and military policies, following Washington’s rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and President George W. Bush’s skepticism about global warning – a stance that has stunned scientists worldwide.
Here’s hoping Peter Schwartz, one of the authors, is as wrong now as he was with his “Long Boom” cover story that appeared in Wired a few years ago.
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2004.02.23 (Mon) • 15:11
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Posted by Paul 2004.02.23, 16:39
Not so completely unrelated… Can I offer you my “Axis of Evil” weather forecast?
Posted by T P B, Esq. 2004.02.24, 12:16
Oh man, I remember that long boom article. That was painfully off. Dow hits 30k by now, etc.
Posted by matthew mcglynn 2004.02.25, 05:40
Here it is… The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980-2020
Dated July, 1997: “We are watching the beginnings of a global economic boom on a scale never experienced before. We have entered a period of sustained growth that could eventually double the world’s economy every dozen years and bring increasing prosperity for — quite literally — billions of people on the planet. We are riding the early waves of a 25-year run of a greatly expanding economy that will do much to solve seemingly intractable problems like poverty and to ease tensions throughout the world. And we’ll do it without blowing the lid off the environment.”
That last sentence is especially curious, in the context of the Global Warming report.
Posted by brahma 2004.02.27, 06:37
the weather damages is the product of the global warming …and the real effects should by in the near future. and all the global clime will change.
Posted by Avi Solomon 2004.03.07, 04:27
Check out: Ice Age Now The main idea is that humans have little effect on the climate which has regular cycles(we are due for the 11,500 year Ice age cycle soon)
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