Climate Change Vulnerability of the World

4 07 2008

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The best place in the world to live if you want to avoid the negative effects of global warming?
Canada!

The worst?
The Coronos Islands.

Better book your flight to the Coronos Islands while you still can!
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American Spies Say that Global Warming Will Contribute to International Political Instability, Terrorist Safe-Havens

24 06 2008

By Noah Shachtman
Wired.com
June 23, 2008
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Environmental groups have been warning for years that tense parts of the world could get even worse with the advent of global climate change, and even spark whole new conflicts. Now, the nation’s spies are saying pretty much the same thing.

The U.S. intelligence community has finished up its classified assessment of how our changing weather patterns could contribute to “political instability around the world, the collapse of governments and the creation of terrorist safe havens,” Inside Defense reports. Congress was briefed on the report last week. And on Wednesday, leading spies — including National Intelligence Council chairman Dr. Thomas Fingar and Energy Department intelligence chief Rolf Mowatt-Larsen — will testify on the Hill about the 58-page document, “The National Security Implications of Global Climate Change Through 2030.”

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