Pentagon Forecasts Climate Wars

Stephen Leahy of IPS reports on the Pentagon's planning for the security challenges that might come with an abrubt change in the Earth's climate, which promises to wreak ecological and economic devastation in regions to the south of the United States.

The plan was drawn up by the Global Business Network, a California think tank, and first reported on by Fortune Magazine last month.

The article by Fortune ventures to say that the fallout from this report could radically alter the public debate over global warming, with the Pentagon potentially taking the lead.

Update: There's a follow-up to this story over at Benedict@Large.

Update II: The Pentagon study is now available, here.