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Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us (2004) (theguardian.com) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver htt

• mudil 7y ago
  "Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.. 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."
  • pochamago 7y ago
    Glad that was an overzealous estimation
    • renjimen 7y ago
      Still 4 years to go! Don't speak to soon (though the Siberian climate probably not going to happen)
  • Udik 7y ago
    It's 2020, and the climate of Britain is not "Siberian" by any stretch of the imagination. Reading these lines makes my blood boil: "Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'" This is a report by a military complex that has waged endless wars in the last 20 years. And they're steadily working towards a new major war right now. We don't talk about that on HN, but please spare me their reports about how climate change will cause as many deaths as their willfully engineered on false pretexts wars.