Reuters Headline: ‘Climate Change a Security Issue Like Cold War’

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So, did you know that climate change is the biggest security challenge since the Cold War?

Hadn't heard that?

Well, you're just not reading the finer alarmist wire services!

As extraordinarily reported by Reuters Tuesday (emphasis added):

Climate change is the biggest security challenge since the Cold War but people have not woken up to the risks nor to easy solutions such as saving energy at home, experts said on Tuesday.

"We're not yet collectively grasping the scale of what we need to do," British climate change ambassador John Ashton told a seminar of 40 scientists and officials from 13 nations in Ny Alesund, Norway, about 1,200 km (750 miles) from the North Pole.

He said global warming should be recast as a security issue, such as war or terrorism, to help mobilise support for tougher global action to cut emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.

You think if soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore starts calling this the war on climate change John Edwards will say it's just a bumper sticker slogan?

Nah, I don't either.


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So, how are our New Yorker's doing today?

Cold War indeed. Saw this at Drudge. NYC Sets Record For Coldest Day.

"In fact, the 59-degree high tied the record for the coldest high temperature ever for the month of August in New York City, when it reached just 59 degrees in 1911."

64 degrees - just wait...

64 degrees - just wait... a few years.

"This can be done with no loss of comfort," he said, adding jokingly that it might be have to be enforced by "sweater police". Another solution would be to charge higher prices for heating homes beyond about 18C (64F).

Well, if these GW alarmists are right about the onset of extreme future warming - would it not be easier to simply wait until world temperatures rise, such that the need for heating homes would be outdated. (;~>

Melt them Glaciers

From the photo above, I can not see what the problem is with glaciers melting. The old photo shows a dirty cold ice patch barren of beauty and life while the later photo shows a pristine lake with the opportunity with grass seeded on the shore to fish stocked in the lake being a valuable piece of real estate.

The reality is if warming would occur in a long enough cycle that Siberia and Canada could be an immigration dream like Oz and the American west were. 2 more billion people could live in comfort in these areas.

Granted the Canadian sediments indicate a solar cooling pattern is coming, but I believe the Bible in the cycle we are entering is a solar scorching of earth.......but this was a day dream of go north young man to show that melting is a good thing.

 

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So, is there anything that

So, is there anything that liberals won't call a "national security issue" for political gain? Other than an actual "national securtiy issue, that is....

"We're not yet collectively

"We're not yet collectively grasping the scale of what we need to do,"
British climate change ambassador John Ashton told a seminar of 40
scientists, and continued "Naturally we have no solutions, but I selflessly will be holding my farts in"

Global climate change has

Global climate change has been with us for what, 4 billion years? 

I'll stick with worrying about real threats thank you, well at least the ones we have some control over. 

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Stop geological change!

Stop Geological Change! Don't you know that there's man-made shifting of the ground beneath us? The continents are drifting! Tectonic plates are shifting! All these people walking around and cars rolling are causing this! Stop the jack-hammering! Calling Al Gore. Calling Al Gore...  

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

I forget which now

and perhaps I made a mistake here the other day, but they already have 7 billion dollars a year cut out of the NASA buget and/or the CIA/defense budget to "study" the possible impacts of AGW on future crisis about the world, that the libs say "our military must respond to for the sake of humanitarian love".

 I read from here or somewhere (several places)how it's the big new thing for future security scenarios, billions and billions big. So, basically, a bunch of looney Plame's sit around with Al Gore's "scientists" ( of the political and social type) he and the dems have appointed, and they dream up a cataclysmic future of natural disasters (called AGW), then send it over the the Pentagon and tell them they will need to respond in Timbuktu to 3 million drowning victims from the Al Gore ocean flood.

 I'd imagine there all sorts of boats and flying floats the military is being told they will have to plan on purchasing soon, and earthmoving tractors and all sorts weatherproofing things as well as solar powered toidies and kleenex and diapers. No doubt Katrina increased the spending and directed the military planning toward rescue the enemy scenarios. We'll just have to stop buying bullets and warfare items. 

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For the record,http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,501145,00.htm

They Could Be Right!

 When they talk about GW turning into a security crises, they may be right.  With the Democrats tieing our hands, fiscally, with entitlements they can easily do more than that with all the carbon taxing they want the public to absorb.  By the time they're done, we may not have enough money left for security so we might as well quit. 

If the sane scientists are correct, and the earth is going to start cooling in 5 years, it's important that we keep the Democrats at bay for that long.  Once the science is proved incorrect, they won't be able to get all the tax money they envision, which is important because, once they get it, they'll never give it back. 

Never argue with an idiot.  They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

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"Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream."

"Lord, Jack."

"You know when fluoridation first began?"

"I... no, no. I don't, Jack."

"Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."

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“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”   -Chief Justice John Roberts

 "but people have not

 "but people have not woken up to the risks nor to easy solutions such as saving energy at home"

 Translation: you people are too stupid to believe the hype and hysteria we've been shovelin to you that if you just turned off your A.C. and all your lights and essentially live the way we tell you to, you just might save the Earth!!

Even my eleven year old can see through this garbage.

Seeing those glaciers

Seeing those glaciers disappear is just horrible, and I can't believe people are not willing to act when they see evidence like that. If we all join together and fight really hard against this warming, we could possibly increase the glaciers in size to cover most of Canada and a large portion of the interior United States. Mother nature in balance means 100 meters of ice covering Minnesota, and its our job to help Mother balance.

What is with you people???

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i like your idea as Yosemite Valley is one of my favorite places on earth.  It was created by glaciers so i figure give it a couple million years and we can have 2 Yosemites 

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”   -Chief Justice John Roberts