The Observer / The Guardian

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

New York. 2-22-04. Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

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, say the few experts privy to its contents.

'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'

Lovely. Reminds me of this:

"I don't care what the facts are."
--George Herbert Walker Bush. 8-15-89

this

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
--George W. Bush. 10-4-00

and this:

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool.
--Richard Feynman

certainly this:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. It follows that all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw

probably this:

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power.
--Charles Beard

And lastly, this:

instead of this:

Which, if you think about it, is really this:

God Bless America.