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'Beware Climate Warfare': Beckett
2007-04-19
Wars across the world will be caused by global warming, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett warned yesterday.

Iranian naval patrols Drought, floods and rising sea levels pose a major security risk and businesses must come together to try to find a way to combat the threat, she told a UN meeting. In developing countries climate change could "make it more difficult for them to secure the energy they need to power their homes and their businesses. They might decide to go out and take what they need for themselves. The resources available to us are already stretched and under immense and growing strain. An unstable climate threatens to exacerbate all these existing tensions."

Meanwhile, in a presentation to the Security Council, Britain warned the potential for instability and conflict would be increased as a result of migration by up to 200 million people.
Posted by:Dave D.

#14  I say, bring back the Carboniferous Period. We had CO2 up the Ying Yang, Lots of O2, lots of green stuff growing. Thunderstorms were a b*tch, though. With so much tinder and oxygen, fires roasted things.....big time.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-04-19 22:36  

#13  And far more profitable to complain than try to do anything, no money in actually solving the problem.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-04-19 18:43  

#12  IF carbon dioxide is a problem why don't the Al Gores of the world buy up vast tracks of land to plant trees. Why don't they get UN money (wouldn't use their own and you know it) to buy up chunks of the Amazon to make UN Nature preserves to ensure the jungles aren't depleted.

Because finger-wagging is more fun.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2007-04-19 17:35  

#11  Gloom and doom get politicians elected, so we're going to get a steady diet of it for the unforeseeable future. In the meantime, the crappulence they try to feed to the public needs to be fisked at every opportunity.

Carbon dioxide is NOT a "pollutant", but an essential ingredient to all life on Earth. The entire "global climate change" scenario is predicated on the unfounded idea that it's all mankind's fault, and the politicians can "solve" the problem by taking away more freedom from individuals. Forget the rest of the ballyhoo - it's all about a massive power grab perpetrated by the leftist loons in our society, and abetted by the mainstream media, academia, and government. Ms Beckett is an obvious example. Ridding the world of all of these loons would raise the average world IQ by several points.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-04-19 15:35  

#10  I'm taking a very early long position on Global Drying the next big Meme. I see big grants in about ummmm.... 17 years or so.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-04-19 14:49  

#9  "unlike the dishonourable Foreign Secretary of Great Britain"

There - fixed that for ya', tw.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-04-19 14:20  

#8  If they're right about global warming, then the water currently locked up in glaciers will be free to flow downstream, ending neatly a major current cause of conflict: water scarcity. To me this seems a good thing rather than otherwise. But then, I'm not important enough to spout my unqualified opinion to the entire world, unlike the honourable Foreign Secretary of Great Britain.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-04-19 12:53  

#7  I'm really, really, really bored with global warming. Can someone please put these twittering drivelheads out of their misery?
Posted by: Sonar   2007-04-19 11:53  

#6  Yeah, this climate-change stuff? I heard the Russians are doin' it with microwaves!

Not ovens, you dopes, the energy.
Posted by: Bobby   2007-04-19 10:29  

#5  Reminds of an article a very earnest coworker turned me onto about 10 years ago. Something about a 'weather war' with the Soviets. Some kind of gizmo that could do something-or-another with the ionosphere and also change the jetstream.

Very scaring. But then, I guess that's not exactly what these people are on about.
Posted by: eLarson   2007-04-19 09:58  

#4  try living in the ME for a few years. One Blackpool hotel got solid bookings by guaranteeing rain every week or your money back.
Posted by: Angaitch Cruling1154   2007-04-19 09:01  

#3  In related news: The sky is falling.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-04-19 08:54  

#2  Can't imagine anyone actually fighting for British climate.
Posted by: ed   2007-04-19 01:28  

#1  DEFENSETECH.org > WATER WARS OF YEAR 2050. Is the USA + World ready for such wars of necessary or biological [human species-wide?]survival???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-04-19 00:11  

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