Pentagon warns of climate change, part deux

The Observer has picked up on the climate change report from the Pentagon I mentioned earlier in the week.

Here's its take:

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.'

The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority.

Bush doesn't even read newspapers, so I doubt he'll be perusing a Pentagon study in the near future.

This report, should it become an issue in the mainstream US press, will be spun by Rove and Cheney. In other words, the political and petroleum wings of the executive branch.