Here is Kerry's Winning Issue!!!

[Quixote1818]

Kerry is loosing Mothers who think Bush will protect their children better but if Kerry reminds them of this then I assure you he will win them back plus a few more people. According to the Pentagon Global Warming is a bigger threat to National Security than Terrorism. Might I remind you that the Pentagon is not exactly a left wing propoganda machine.This will hit home for most people left and right.

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/pentagon_repo...

Pentagon Says Global Warming Is a Critical National Security Issue
Report claims climate could change radically, and fast


Print-friendly Page By David Stipp
Published by Fortune Magazine January 26, 2004


Editor's note: The Pentagon's recent warning of the potential for catastrophic climate change is notable for contradicting the Bush Administration's campaign to obscure the scientific consensus on global warming. While the Clinton Administration also did little to tackle the threat, Bush is aggressively disabling public health laws that limit emissions from carbon-based fuels. The Fortune writer, however omits mention of Bush, his administration's gutting of environmental laws, or the Kyoto Accord.
Global warming may be bad news for future generations, but let's face it, most of us spend as little time worrying about it as we did about al Qaeda before 9/11. Like the terrorists, though, the seemingly remote climate risk may hit home sooner and harder than we ever imagined. In fact, the prospect has become so real that the Pentagon's strategic planners are grappling with it.

The threat that has riveted their attention is this: Global warming, rather than causing gradual, centuries-spanning change, may be pushing the climate to a tipping point. Growing evidence suggests the ocean-atmosphere system that controls the world's climate can lurch from one state to another in less than a decade--like a canoe that's gradually tilted until suddenly it flips over. Scientists don't know how close the system is to a critical threshold. But abrupt climate change may well occur in the not-too-distant future. If it does, the need to rapidly adapt may overwhelm many societies--thereby upsetting the geopolitical balance of power.

Though triggered by warming, such change would probably cause cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to longer, harsher winters in much of the U.S. and Europe. Worse, it would cause massive droughts, turning farmland to dust bowls and

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/pentagon_repo...

[KC21304]

1. RFK Jr. said this at Fighting Bob Fest yesterday in

his EXCELLENT speech.