Sunday, February 26, 2006
Pentagon Hot Over Environment
The Pentagon has made it official in a report (PDF abstract) recently leaked to the British press, making the planet hotter is a very bad idea for the good 'ol USA.
Seems to be that the oceans of the world do this thermohaline circulation thing that helps regulate Earth's temperature. Global warming may cause the process to very suddenly cease by lowering the saline content of the oceans. You know, those melting glaciers.
The report indicates that abrupt, catastrophic changes in global temperature "should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern." Guess they have determined that when the rest of the world is starving to death or under water they might get cranky and use nukes to steal our lunch.
Can we declare "war on" global warming now? Do we get to stop killing and dying over oil and start fighting our addiction to it?
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