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Will global warming threaten national security?
Forget WMD -- Sens. Dick Durbin and Chuck Hagel want a National Intelligence Estimate on the security challenges posed by climate change.
Amanda Griscom Little [2007-04-09]

  • Won't make any difference

    This won't make any difference. The people who have the largest effect on climate change are also the people who have the largest economic stake in the status quo. As was previously stated, the short term will always excrete all over the long term.

    As for the estimate itself, it will be quite conservative. Any prediction of dire change will be shouted down, regardless of the science behind it. So the most extreme estimates will not be included, and whatever impact the report may have will be watered down.

    Even the best case scenario, a serious warning of serious consequences, would do little. And we won't get that.

    I guess it will give us something to snicker at 25 years from now.

    -- farnsworth
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    Monday, April 9, 2007 07:35 AM
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