Senator John Kerry: Climate Change a National Security Threat
ASP board member Senator John Kerry has an op-ed on thedailybeast.com today that he describes as the intelligence briefing on the threat posed by climate change Americans need to read before it’s too late.
The case he makes is compelling. Consider this:
Nowhere is the connection between climate and security more direct than in South Asia—home to al Qaeda. Scientists now warn that the Himalayan glaciers which supply fresh water to a billion people in the region could disappear completely by 2035. Think about what this means: Water from the Himalayans flows through India and Pakistan. India’s rivers are not only vital to its agriculture but are also critical to its religious practice. Pakistan, for its part, is heavily dependent on irrigated farming to avoid famine. At a moment when the U.S. government is scrambling to ratchet down tensions and preparing to invest billions of dollars to strengthen Pakistan’s capacity to deliver for its people—climate change could work so powerfully in the opposite direction.
Worldwide, climate change risks making the most volatile places even more combustible.
Pretty frightening stuff.
The comments to the Senator’s post are worrisome, however: a collection of naysayers and modern-day Nero’s who turn a willfully blind eye to both the scientific and national security communities. Would they do the same if those experts were talking about a bio-weapon or a known threat from al Qaeda? I doubt it.
The point is: climate change is a known threat–and there is definitely something we can do about it. But we have to act and stop treating the science as something that is merely one person’s opinion. This is an urgent threat–it’s time we started acting that way.
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Actually, 90% of the glaciers worldwide are growing. both polar ice caps are growing, the oceans are cooling and the earth is cooling.
Current cyclic behavior shows a higher probability of a Global Cooling than Global Warming.
We are in two sunspot cycles; a Minor Cycle of 10 years, and a Major cycle of 120 years. Temperatures rise during the first half and drop during the last half of the cycles. Being at the end of Minor Cycle 23, temperatures are dropping. Being in the last half of a Major cycle temperatures are dropping. Therefore Minor Cycle 24 will not be as warm and will be colder than Minor Cycle 23. This trend will continue from each successive 11-year cycle to the next, for about another 60 years.
You see a “collection of naysayers and modern-day Nero’s who turn a willfully blind eye to both the scientific and national security communities.” I see the same. Only those are the ones promoting the scam.
Here is the SCIENTIFIC TRUTH you are looking for. (You will have to cantenate the links. They have to be separated or the interface will not accept them.)
REAL GOALS:
http://
www .climatedepot.com/a/1893/Gore-US-Climate-Bill-Will-Help-Bring-About-Global-Governance
Global political leaders (including Gore and Chirac) hailed Kyota as, “the first component of an authentic global governance.” At the Bali conference they advocated, “the transfer of money from rich to poor nations.”
COST:
http: //
www .transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=104031&cat=12
We taxpayers have spent $79 billion on GW research since 1989. We consumers were charged $126 Billion for the cap and con market in 2008.
FROM THE DEPT OF ENERGY:
http://
www .geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
Only 0.28% of Global Warming (GW) due to man-made Green House Gasses.
If the US complies with HR 2454, GW would be reduced by 0.00952%
Discounting India and China, if the US reduced CO2 by 83% by 2050, global temps would decline by less than 0.003 ºC.
FROM NASA GISS SURFACE STATIONS:
http: //
www. norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/08/1998_no_longer_the_hottest_yea.html
http: //
www. humanevents.com/article.php?id=23703
When GISS adjusted for Y2K programming errors, the warmest recent year was 1934, not 1998 and the 1930’s were warmer than the 1990’s.
FROM NASA SATELLITES:
http://
scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/feb_co2_report.pdf
http://
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25401759-5000117,00.html
Satellite temps show no significant warming since 1995, no warming since 1998 and cooling for the last few years. Global temp has declined 0.73 F since 2006.
OBSERVATIONS OF FALACIES:
http: //
scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
http: //
www .news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25401759-5000117,00.html
The seas are not rising. 90% of glaciers are growing. Both polar ice caps are growing. The oceans are cooling. The world is cooling.
WARNING:
Current cyclic behavior shows a higher probability of a Global Cooling than Global Warming.
We are in two sunspot cycles; a Minor Cycle of 10 years, and a Major cycle of 120 years. Temperatures rise during the first half and drop during the last half of the cycles. Being at the end of Minor Cycle 23, temperatures are dropping. Being in the last half of a Major cycle temperatures are dropping. Therefore Minor Cycle 24 will not be as warm and will be colder than Minor Cycle 23. This trend will continue from each successive 11-year cycle to the next, for about another 60 years.