AR-News: (US NY) Report:" "Global Warming a Greater Threat Than Terrorism!!"

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

The possible link between global warming and TC is not a new idea. Most of us 
probably imagine, and certainly hope, that the effects of global warming will 
be gradual, leaving us -- and our trusted technologists -- plenty of time to 
react. But in fact there is a growing body of evidence that global climate 
change can occur quite fast and be very destabilizing. The notion of "abrupt 
change" has been gaining ground in the world's scientific community since at least 
the 1980s. And many scientistshave expressed concern about the potential 
impacts of global warming on TC. 
As the authors of the Pentagon report acknowledge, at this point most leading 
scientists probably believe that the impacts of a TC shift would be 
"considerably smaller" and more localized than their report assumes. However, what is 
perhaps most frightening is just how limited our understanding of the potential 
for "abrupt change" apparently is. Just this month, the US's National Science 
Foundation and the UK's National Environmental Research Council launched a 
new four-year project aimed precisely at understanding the TC-global warming 
relationship. 

By dramatizing the importance of this relationship, this "pseudo-secret" 
report has served a useful purpose. Of course its release is unlikely to please 
the Bush Adminstration, which has so far adopted a head-in-the-sand attitude 
toward global warming, including its refusal (together with Russia and 
Australia)to sign the Kyoto Treaty. 






full story:

http://bloodbankers.typepad.com/submerging_markets/2004/03/new_pentagon_re.htm
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