The end of the world, Real Soon Now!
When I first read the recent Observer article on a secret Pentagon report predicting that climate change would cause massive disaster within 20 years, I just wondered what the hell those journalists had been smoking.
The Observer article said:
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.'
This is so far out it is laughable, yet of course some leftist bloggers take it seriously. Environmentalism has unfortunately become such a joke that people are used to such extreme alarmism. I guess environmentalist gloom & doom has become the left's substitute for the absense of proper fire and brimstone apocalyptics from marxist theology (heh).
So what is the "report" really about? Well, the report is not very "secret" (doc) - not even for being in a newspaper, I mean - but the real story is, according to this blog, .that this was the science fiction fantasies of a group of imaginative philosophers. InstaPundit has more.
I have been rubbing doomsayers' noses in decades old environmentalist nonsense earlier, so I am glad to see we have more nonsense to rub their noses in 20 years into the future.
11:20:18 PM 
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