Top ex-military leaders call global warming major security risk

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070415/na-gen-us-global-warming-security

Top ex-military leaders call global warming major security risk

SETH BORENSTEIN | AP | April 15, 2007 09:03 AM EST

WASHINGTON — Global warming poses a "serious threat to America's national security" with terrorism worsening and the U.S. will likely be dragged into fights over water and other shortages, top retired military leaders warn in a new report.

Joining calls already made by scientists and environmental activists, the retired U.S. military leaders, including the former Army chief of staff and President George W. Bush's former chief Middle East peace negotiator, called on the U.S. government to make major cuts in emissions of gases that cause global warming.

The report warned that in the next 30 to 40 years there will be wars over water, increased hunger instability from worsening disease and rising sea levels and global warming-induced refugees. "The chaos that results can be an incubator of civil strife, genocide and the growth of terrorism," the 35-page report predicted.

"Climate change exacerbates already unstable situations," former U.S. Army chief of staff Gordon Sullivan told Associated Press Radio. "Everybody needs to start paying attention to what's going on. I don't think this is a particularly hard sell in the Pentagon. ... We're paying attention to what those security implications are."

Gen. Anthony "Tony" Zinni, Bush's former Middle East envoy, said in the report: "It's not hard to make the connection between climate change and instability, or climate change and terrorism."

The report was issued by the Alexandria, Virginia-based, national security think-tank The CNA Corporation and was written by six retired admirals and five retired generals. They warned of a future of rampant disease, water shortages and flooding that will make already dicey areas _ such as the Middle East, Asia and Africa _ even worse.

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "If only Commander AWOL would listen..." - Top Generals

"Hell, me and my republicon cronies are making a killing
with these studly oil prices. So you military guys can
just shut up and sit down. Who cares what you think?
Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL

[Joanne98]

2. Reality strikes. k&r

[sam sarrha]

3. at least we know where the Good Climate will be.. on a ranch in Paraguay

i was wondering where the best place to survive would be till a Psychopath i know of bought a really big piece of it....

[Joanne98]

4. LOL!

[kestrel91316]

5. He knows the climate in TX isn't going to be conducive to happy living......

The entire SW US is going to be virtually uninhabitable eventually.

[sam sarrha]

6. and the upper NE and the south coast and part of the east coast and will we macnine gun

the 100,000,000 mexicans crossing the boarder escaping drought and F6 Hurricanes and tornados in Mexico, central and south america

[CarolNYC]

7. Yep, General Clark has been spekaing to this for a while now...

Here's video of Clark at the 2005 Clinton Global Initiative discussing global warming as a national security issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0bNGjX6pYg

Transcript here:
http://securingamerica.com/printready/transcript_CGI050916.htm