posted on Feb, 27 2004 @ 09:54 AM
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.' The findings will
prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make
unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority.
Article
observer.guardian.co.uk...
The report was commissioned by influential Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall, who has held considerable sway on US military thinking over the
past three decades. He was the man behind a sweeping recent review aimed at transforming the American military under Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld