DECEMBER 28, 2021
By Paul Homewood
Oddly enough, there are still some people reading the Guardian:
Climate change in the next 20 years could lead to a global catastrophe that costs millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
ONE secret report, suppressed by US defense officials and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be submerged under rising seas as Britain slips into a ‘Siberian’ climate in 2020. Nuclear conflicts, great droughts, widespread famines and riots will break out all over the world.
The document predicts that sudden climate change could bring the planet to the brink of anarchy as nations develop a nuclear threat to protect and secure food and water supplies. and energy is running out. Some experts say that the threat to global stability completely eclipses the threat to terrorism.
The Pentagon analysis concludes: ‘Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life. ‘Once again, war will define human life.’
The findings would prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts say they will also make reading less daunting for a president who insists defense is a top priority.
The report was commissioned by the Pentagon’s influential defense adviser Andrew Marshall, who has had a significant influence on US military thinking over the past three decades. He is the man behind a recent sweeping review aimed at transforming the US military under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Climate change ‘should be elevated beyond a scientific debate into a US National Security the authors, said Peter Schwartz, CIA adviser and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network.
They concluded that an impending catastrophic scenario of climate change was ‘reasonable and would challenge the national security of the United States in ways that warrant immediate consideration’. As early as next year, widespread flooding caused by sea-level rise will create massive upheaval for millions of people.
Last week, the Bush administration came under heavy criticism from a large group of respected scientists, who claimed that they had chosen science to fit its policy agenda and suppressed studies they don’t like. Jeremy Symons, a former whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said that blocking the report for four months was yet another example of the White House trying to bury the threat of climate change. Queen.
However, senior climatologists believe their rulings could prove to be the catalyst in forcing Bush to accept climate change as a real and happening phenomenon. They also hope it will convince the United States to sign global treaties to slow climate change.
A group of prominent UK scientists recently visited the White House to voice their fears about global warming, part of an effort to ramp up demands for the US to deal with the issue responsibly. seriously. Sources told The Observer that US officials have been extremely sensitive about the issue in the face of complaints that the US public position is increasingly looking out of place.
One even alleges that the White House wrote to complain about certain comments made by Professor David King, Tony Blair’s chief scientific adviser, after he deemed the President’s position on the matter to be indisputable.
Among the scientists present at the White House talks was Professor John Schellnhuber, former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK’s leading group of climate scientists at Tyndall Climate Change Research Center. He said the Pentagon’s internal concerns should prove the ‘tipping point’ in convincing Bush to accept climate change.
Sir John Houghton, former chief executive of the Office of Meteorology – and the first senior figure to liken the threat of climate change to terrorism – said: ‘If the Pentagon were to put out that kind of message , then this is really an important document. . ‘
Bob Watson, the World Bank’s chief scientist and former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, added that the Pentagon’s dire warnings can no longer be ignored.
‘Can Bush Ignore the Pentagon? It will be very difficult to get rid of this type of material. It’s extremely embarrassing. After all, Bush’s sole priority was defending the nation. The Pentagon is not a liberal, eccentric, generally conservative group. If climate change is a threat to national security and the economy, then he must act. Watson added: “There are two groups that the Bush Administration tends to listen to, the oil corridor and the Pentagon.
‘You have a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac River you have a Pentagon that is preparing for climate wars. It’s scary that Bush is starting to ignore his government on this issue,’ said Greenpeace’s Rob Gueterbock.
According to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a population higher than it can sustain. By 2020, ‘catastrophic’ water and energy supply shortages will become increasingly difficult to overcome, pushing the planet into the fray. They warn that 8,200 years ago, climatic conditions that caused crop failures, famines, epidemics and mass migrations of populations could soon be repeated over large areas.
Randall told The Observer that the potential split of rapid climate change would create global chaos. “This is sad stuff,” he said. ‘This is a unique national security threat because no enemy has a gun pointed at you and we have no control over the threat.’
Randall added that it may be too late to prevent a disaster from happening. ‘We don’t know exactly where we are in this process. It could start tomorrow and we won’t know for another 5 years,’ he said.
‘The consequences of climate change for some countries are unbelievable. It is clear that cutting fossil fuel use will be well worth it. ‘
Watson says the report’s scenarios are so dramatic that they could prove to be important in US elections. Democratic frontrunner John Kerry is known for accepting climate change as a real problem. Scientists frustrated with Bush’s stance are threatening to ensure Kerry uses the Pentagon report in his campaign.
The fact that Marshall was behind its terrifying findings should support Kerry’s cause. Marshall, 82, is a Pentagon legend who heads a secret consulting organization that looks at risks to national security known as the Office of Cyber Assessment. Dubbed ‘Yoda’ by Pentagon insiders who respect his seasoned experience, he is believed to be the man behind the Defense Department’s push for ballistic missile defense.
Symons, who left the EPA to protest political interference, said the suppression of the report was another example of the White House trying to bury evidence about climate change. ‘It’s another example of why this government should stop burying its head in the sand on this issue.’
Symons said the Bush administration’s close links with large capacity oil and energy companies were crucial in understanding why climate change was received so positively in the Oval Office. . He added: ‘This administration is ignoring the evidence to appease some of the major oil and energy companies.
https://www.theguardian.com/enosystem/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver
No wonder the Guardian is in such dire straits. Apparently I’m one of their top readers globally, having read 64 articles this year!
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