The Financial Times Soberly Notes That "Climate Change May Worsen Instability"

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The new US military report, however, which was commissioned by the government-financed Center for Naval Analyses, lays out strong support for the link.

It describes climate change as "a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world", which will "seriously exacerbate already marginal living standards in many Asian, African and Middle Eastern nations, causing widespread political instability and the likelihood of failed states".

Making matters worse, the military experts warn that climate change offers a challenge much more complex than conventional security threats because of its potential to create "multiple chronic conditions, occurring globally within the same time frame".

As governments fail, they say, the US may be drawn more frequently into unstable situations abroad, and at home could experience "mounting pressure to accept large numbers of immigrant and refugee populations". Admiral T. Joseph Lopez, the former commander-in-chief of US Naval Forces Europe and of Allied Forces, Southern Europe, said: "Climate change can provide the conditions that will extend the war on terror. In the long term we want to address the underlying conditions that terrorists seek to exploit, but climate change will prolong those conditions. It makes them worse."

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http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&Date=20070416&ID=6753574

[phantom power]

1. Amusing. No mention of future instabilities *here*.

Because America is special.
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[GliderGuider]

2. And this doesn't even factor in all the other elements of the Problematique

• Deforestation and desertification;
• Depletion of ocean fish stocks;
• Depletion of soil fertility and fresh water;
• Extinctions and biodiversity loss;
• Decline of global grain stocks
• Peak Oil

All of them happening now, all intersecting, interacting, amplifying and interfering with each other. Global Warming ain't even the half of it. Hey, I've got an idea - why doesn't the US military declare a "War on Hunger"? Not so much bang-bang, but after all, a war is a war.

[phantom power]

3. That squeaky sound you hear...

is the four horsemen oiling up their saddles.

[GliderGuider]

4. I wondered what that sound was

I used to fall asleep to the buzzing of the bees. I don't seem to hear them any more, all I hear is this "Squeak, squeak, squeak." I sure hope those horsemen get finished soon so they can saddle up, ride away and stop keeping me awake.