Report: Global warming expected to increase terrorism.
By on Jun 25th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Report: Global warming expected to increase terrorism.
National Intelligence Council (NIC) chairman Thomas Fingar today told Congress that global warming is expected to “aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions” around the world, which “could increase the pool of potential recruits into terrorist activity.” Fingar’s remarks were based on a new NIC report on the topic, which conservative House members blasted as “a waste of time.”
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All the more reason to remove Bush and company ASAP and to deny any continuation of his insane policies to McDumbDumb.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:39 pmI think that even if you proved that global warming caused impotence, conservative House members would still parrot their petro-corpo masters talking points.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:41 pmThen global warming deniers are, in addition to being completely ignorant, terrorist supporting enablers and appeasers.
And the criminal Bush administration - through it’s efforts to censor information about climate change - are actively supporting and assisting in the growth of terrorism.
F***ing traitorous scumbags.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:42 pmOf course. After all, they’ve always got Viagra.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:48 pm…new NIC report on the topic, which conservative House members blasted as “a waste of time.”
It’s a waste of time for the Repukes — until they work out a way to use it to scare the pants off the sheeple.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:53 pmMore terriarism from the useless GW Botch admin…I am so NOT shocked…
June 25th, 2008 at 6:53 pmIf the conservative House members blasted this guy, he must be on to something.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:54 pmMaybe now the chickehawks and the freaks in the neocon movement will care about global warming. Or maybe not.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:59 pmZooey Says:
…new NIC report on the topic, which conservative House members blasted as “a waste of time.”
It’s a waste of time for the Repukes — until they work out a way to use it to scare the pants off the sheeple.
It’s a real problem for them. On one hand it’s all about scary dark people, but on the other . . . Al Gore!!!!
June 25th, 2008 at 6:59 pmWhy do these short sighted blighters hate their children, and their children>?
June 25th, 2008 at 7:04 pmGlobal warming will lead to famine in many countries, because the weather patterns are out of whack.
Hungry people usually revolt.
A lot of species will probably go extinct, because the climate is changing too fast for many species to adapt.
We may even be helping create our own extinction event. No comets or asteroids needed.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:08 pmWayne Says:
Global warming will lead to famine in many countries, because the weather patterns are out of whack.
Hungry people usually revolt.
Can you say “Bangladesh”? Some huge percentage of that entirely overcrowded and hungry country is all of three feet above sea level and it’s FLAT.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:14 pmThe genocide in Rwanda followed years of climate change influence Drought, pitting hungry neighbors against each other.
All of SubSaharan Africa is running out of water, leading to turmoil in Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya,…..
June 25th, 2008 at 7:51 pmThe truly sad thing is that W is looking for Legacy and ‘historical relevance’. Unfortunately for him, and both his Republican and Democratic enablers, this will be their common legacy. Hopefully it’s not too late for the next Administration to Do Something. Even more hopefully we’ll have enough Democrats in Congress with real, working spines and maybe, just maybe, they’ll actually Do Something to save the world. In the meantime…
June 25th, 2008 at 8:32 pmImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions
June 25th, 2008 at 8:39 pm…“aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions” around the world, which “could increase the pool of potential recruits into terrorist activity.”…
These issues have long been known to increase violent, extremist behavior. So what does Bush do to counteract this? He starts wars and goes into denial about global warming. Good luck with that.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 25th, 2008 at 9:15 pmA complete list of things caused by global warming
Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, Africa in conflict, aggressive weeds, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), anaphylactic reactions to bee stings, ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk, anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear, Arctic tundra to burn, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, Baghdad snow, Bahrain under water, bananas grow, barbarisation, beer shortage, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, better beer, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billion homeless, billions face risk, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird loss accelerating, bird visitors drop, birds confused, birds return early, birds driven north, bittern boom ends, blackbirds stop singing, blackbirds threatened, blizzards, blue mussels return, bluetongue, brains shrink, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain Siberian, British gardens change, brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic plague, budget increases, Buddhist temple threatened, building collapse, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, camel deaths, cancer deaths in England, cannibalism, cataracts, caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened, childhood insomnia, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, cockroach migration, coffee threatened, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), cold wave (India), computer models, conferences, conflict, conflict with Russia, consumers foot the bill, coral bleaching, coral fish suffer, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink , coral reefs twilight, cost of trillions, cougar attacks, cradle of civilisation threatened, creatures move uphill, crime increase, crocodile sex, crops devastated, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, curriculum change, cyclones (Australia), danger to kid’s health, Darfur, Dartford Warbler plague, death rate increase (US), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, depression, desert advance, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, disappearance of coastal cities, diseases move north, Dolomites collapse, drought, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early marriages, early spring, earlier pollen season, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down, Earth wobbling, earthquakes, earthquakes redux, El Niño intensification, end of the world as we know it, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, English villages lost, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, eutrophication, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, walrus, whales, frogs, toads, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, mountain species, not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches, tropical insects) experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, fainting, famine, farmers benefit, farmers go under, farm output boost, fashion disaster, fever,figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fish catches drop, fish downsize, fish catches rise, fish deaf, fish get lost, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flood patterns change, floods, floods of beaches and cities, flood of migrants, flood preparation for crisis, Florida economic decline, flowers in peril, food poisoning, food prices rise, food prices soar, food security threat (SA), footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frog with extra heads, frostbite, frost damage increased, frosts, fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, giant oysters invade, giant pythons invade, giant squid migrate, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat, glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming, glowing clouds, god melts, golf Masters wrecked, Gore omnipresence, grandstanding, grasslands wetter, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop, great tits cope, greening of the North, Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harmful algae, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, health affected, health of children harmed, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hibernation affected, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, HIV epidemic, homeless 50 million, hornets, high court debates, human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, human health risk, human race oblivion, hurricanes, hurricane reduction, hurricanes fewer, hurricanes not, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, ice shelf collapse, illness and death, inclement weather, India drowning, infrastructure failure (Canada), industry threatened, infectious diseases, inflation in China, insect explosion, insurance premium rises, Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, invasion of cats, invasion of herons, invasion of jellyfish, invasion of midges, island disappears, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, jets fall from sky, jet stream drifts north, Kew Gardens taxed, kidney stones, killer cornflakes, killing us, kitten boom, koalas under threat, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, lake empties, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers’ income increased (surprise surprise!), lives saved, Loch Ness monster dead, lush growth in rain forests, Malaria, mammoth dung melt, mango harvest fails, Maple production advanced, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Meaching (end of the world), Mediterranean rises, megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, methane runaway, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migration difficult (birds), migratory birds huge losses, microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, minorities hit, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, moose dying, more bad air days, more research needed, mortality increased, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountains break up, mountains green and flowering, mountains melting, mountains taller, mortality lower, Myanmar cyclone, narwhals at risk, National security implications, native wildlife overwhelmed, natural disasters quadruple, new islands, next ice age, NFL threatened, Nile delta damaged, noctilucent clouds, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks dying, oaks move north, ocean acidification, ocean deserts expand, ocean waves speed up, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, Pacific dead zone, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts, plankton blooms, plankton destabilised, plankton loss, plant viruses, plants march north, polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears drowning, polar bears starve, polar tours scrapped, popcorn rise, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychiatric illness, puffin decline, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rape wave, refugees, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, river flow impacted, rivers raised, roads wear out, robins rampant, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, rooftop bars, Ross river disease, ruins ruined, salinity reduction, salinity increase, Salmonella, satellites accelerate, school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, seals mating more, sewer bills rise, severe thunderstorms, sex change, sexual promiscuity, shark attacks, sharks booming, sharks moving north, sheep shrink, shop closures, short-nosed dogs endangered, shrinking ponds, shrinking shrine, ski resorts threatened, skin cancer, slow death, smaller brains, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy, snowfall reduction, soaring food prices, societal collapse, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, space problem, spectacular orchids, spiders invade Scotland, squid aggressive giants, squid population explosion, squirrels reproduce earlier, stingray invasion, storms wetter, stormwater drains stressed, street crime to increase, subsidence, suicide, swordfish in the Baltic, Tabasco tragedy, taxes, tectonic plate movement, teenage drinking, terrorism, threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tomatoes rot, tornado outbreak, tourism increase, trade barriers, trade winds weakened, traffic jams, transportation threatened, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed,, trees could return to Antarctic, trees in trouble, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, trees lush, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, truffle shortage, turtles crash, turtles lay earlier, UK coastal impact, UK Katrina, Vampire moths, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, walrus pups orphaned, walrus stampede, war, wars over water, wars sparked, wars threaten billions, wasps, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20% of increase), water stress, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weeds, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whales move north, whales wiped out, wheat yields crushed in Australia, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, wine - harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine - more English, wine - England too hot, wine -German boon, wine - no more French , wine passé (Napa), wine stronger, winters in Britain colder, winter in Britain dead, witchcraft executions, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World at war, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, World in flames, Yellow fever.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:53 pm(you forgot one… troll infestations)
June 25th, 2008 at 10:10 pmI’d like to have a chit chat with John Kerry but he always runs off. Is John Kerry a pussy? I am not sure. I’ll let the rest be the judge.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:11 pmJohn Kerry, if you hate the earth so much then feel free to get off of it. we won’t miss you
June 25th, 2008 at 10:36 pmTHIS John Kerry troll is the poster child for why we need to teach critical thinking in the schools…
June 26th, 2008 at 12:08 amGlobal warming may not be a huge threat to us in our lives, but in the future it can be a potential catastrophe if
1) The Gulf Stream stops flowing north
2) The Amazon rain forest goes dry and releases the massive amount of carbon stored in it’s soil, which would have a devastating impact on the Earth
3) The reserves of methane frozen in the ocean suddenly release from their cages and into the atmosphere.
All three of these possibilities can seriously put strain on our civilization, if not, make us almost entirely instinct as a human species. And we can avoid this if we start cutting back emissions by 70% starting now. We won’t go back to the way things used to be, but we would have a chance of avoiding any of the above scenarios which have been demonstrated with computer software and a very likely threat to future generations if we don’t act quick.
Pseudo-conservatives must join us in the fight or their hands will be covered with blood! Actually, a lot of their hands are covered with blood with Iraq and all, but with global warming their will be covered with even more blood! Probably a swimming pool full of blood if any of the above catastrophes happen to our planet. It’s a real threat. Read the “Weather Makers”, it has all the detail.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:41 amGlobal warming could produce a double whammy.
Reportedly, scientists drilling in Antarctica ten years ago for ice core samples dating back to the last great Ice Age discovered something startling, something that didn’t fit computer models.
They discovered that just prior to the start of the last great Ice Age about 12,000 years ago, the earth’s atmosphere heated up, and that the time it took from the beginning of this temperature spike to the beginning of the last great Ice Age was only a short 30 years.
One of the theories advanced after this startling discovery was that the melting glaciers and arctic snow packs flooded the oceans with cold freshwater which not only diluted the saltwater oceans but also disrupted the ocean currents, causing for instance, the Atlantic Gulf Stream not to travel as far north as it does today, thus not transporting warmer tropical waters northward and cooler/colder waters southward as widely as before.
Thus, the initial global warming led to global cooling thirty years later, that caused the arctic regions to refreeze and actually glaciate much further south than previously, before the heat spike.
This is why I call it the global warming double whammy.
So, the world oil companies are cheering the disappearing of the polar ice cap, with all that open water appearing at the North Pole, just ripe for the drilling, but based on the scenario I just related, their cheering will be short-lived, just as they, and their children, probably will be.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:48 am.
REPORT:
Bush Expected to Increase Global Terrorism.
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June 26th, 2008 at 1:49 amWizard2000, you mean we might see one of these in our backyards due to global warming?
Cool!
June 26th, 2008 at 1:49 amViral Opportunism from the Globalist is what we need most to be concerned with , because they have plans to exploit any catastrophe , made up or not for the main purpose of having countries ceding sovereignty.
It’s not a conspiracy theory , it’s from THEIR OWN WORDS .
Google Richard Haass and the Council on Foreign Relations , the largest ” think tank ” and their attack on not only OUR sovereignty , but any country that needs AID for global warming, food shortage , famine , war, you name it .
Haass - In the recent article, Haass concludes that “the time has come to rethink the notion” of national sovereignty. He calls for “new mechanisms … for regional and global governance that include actors other than states.” These include transnational corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). “States,” he said, “must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to function. This is already taking place in the trade realm.” In referring to actions taking place in the trade realm, of course, he means primarily those taking place at the World Trade Organization, but also doubtless those that are being implemented through the so-called free trade agreements: NAFTA, CAFTA, and the (stalled) FTAA.
Most of the political players you see on TV belong to the CFR and are involved at different levels , as well as Tom Brokaw, Rather, Barabra Walters and many , many others .
When Katie Couric interviewed Richard Haass (on Youtube) she never asked him WHY , any country let alone ours , should cede sovereignty for Economic reasons or any catastrophe’s .
Otherwise the threat of terrorism or any catastrophe is a pretext for ..INVASIONS , COUNTRIES CEDING SOVEREIGNTY , ALLOWING U.S. MILITARY BASES ETC. ETC.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:02 amOMG, I am an anti-globalist, anti-free trade, anti-fascism, pro-democracy, 9/11 truther and global warming denier. I am so toast.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:38 amI’ll only have to endure 30 years or so of drought here in the desert Southwest, and then I’ll be hunting caribou along the edge of the ice sheet.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:57 amChuck Feney Says:
I think that even if you proved that global warming caused impotence, conservative House members would still parrot their petro-corpo masters talking points.
Sure, they wouldn’t notice any difference.
June 26th, 2008 at 8:47 am