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Climate Change and Terrorism
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Impact of Climate Change:
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Over 800 colleges and universities, K-12 schools, civic organizations and religious groups are participating in Focus the Nation, potentially the largest simultaneous teach-in in history. (READ MORE) |
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Climate
change should be "elevated beyond a scientific debate
to a national security concern." |
[Pentagon
Study: "Abrupt Climate Change"] |
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| Google Trends |
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| According to Google
Trends, Google searches for global warming have overtaken searches
for terrorism. (As the lower part of the illustration shows,
news mentions of “terorrism” are
still higher than news mentions of “global warming,” however.) |
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| Pentagon study: “Abrupt
Climate Change” (pdf) |
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Commissioned by highly respected Defense Department planner
Andrew Marshall, a Pentagon study raised the possibility that
global warming could prove a greater risk to the world than
terrorism. Among the potential consequences, if climate change
occurs abruptly or at the high end of scenario projections,
might be catastrophic droughts, famines and riots. The study's
principal authors were Peter Schwartz, former head of planning
for Shell Oil, and Doug Randall of the Global Business Network,
a California think tank. |
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Comment on Grist:
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| "Pentagoners: Apocalyptic Pentagon report on global
warming could spur action on Capitol Hill", by Amanda
Griscom (25 Feb 2004) |
| http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2004/02/25/pentagoners/ |
| A hair-raising Pentagon report on the potentially imminent
and colossal national security threat posed by climate change
has been making its way around the Internet since its release
in late January, and this week it picked up considerable
speed |
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| "Pentagon report plans for climate catastrophe" by
Edward Ortiz, Providence Journal Bulletin (March 3, 2004) |
| http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20040303_climate3.1a94fd.html |
| Professor Steven Hamburg, Brown University's Ittleson Associate
Professor of Environmental Studies and director of the Watson
Institute's Global Environmental Program, comments on a new
Pentagon Report about the dangers of global warming. The writer
describes the report as a sharp contrast to the Bush administration's
assessment that global warming is not as critical a threat
as the scientific community contends. |
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